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Point people to full `OsStr` solution

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In the docs > 1. One could re-implement WTF-8 and re-encode file paths on Windows to WTF-8 by accessing their underlying 16-bit integer representation. Unfortunately, this isn’t zero cost (it...

Picks up dependencies from other crates

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Note: this is purely from code inspection It looks like if I ran this in a workspace root where a crate is in the root, it will search all other...

cargo-machette is both a cargo subcommand a direct command except when it isn't

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// ...and the "machete" command if ran as cargo subcommand. if i == 1 && arg == "machete" { continue; } Since your command accepts positional arguments, this will not...

See - https://github.com/sharkdp/lscolors/blob/12ab04d75edca0f9de36a0e7e7fbab31b3974225/src/lib.rs#L267 - https://github.com/sharkdp/lscolors/blob/master/src/style.rs#L218

Provide stream API with implicit conversions

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Most term styling crates require the format-site to know the capabilities of the intended output stream. This complicates things when the the format-site and outputting are decoupled. The idea for...

Provide stream parser

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This will be a building block for implicit conversions between formats

See - https://lib.rs/crates/coolor - https://lib.rs/crates/ansi_colours - https://lib.rs/crates/color_space - https://github.com/Textualize/rich/blob/master/rich/color.py and https://github.com/Textualize/rich/blob/master/rich/_palettes.py

[cargo-xtask](https://github.com/matklad/cargo-xtask) is a pattern for automation in projects. cargo script is a good option here One aspect to understand is how much the behavior is system dependent or workspace-specific -...

Should we - Use the lock file where possible - Allow `field.workspace = true` etc

Right now, the author is `Anonymous`. We should do what `cargo new` does