newtype_enum! macro should have it's own crate

[necauqua]

It is actually an incredibly useful macro for autogenerating 'enums' and their debug for various codes that you receive from outside of Rust. It's similar in its usefulness to the bitflags! macro, and it's a shame I have to copy it to my code from here instead of using a crate. Although I didn't really search if anyone made it (or something similar) a separate crate already

[GabrielMajeri]

It's similar in its usefulness to the bitflags! macro, and it's a shame I have to copy it to my code from here instead of using a crate.

Agreed! Didn't realize it could be so useful outside the project as well.

As far as I know, it shouldn't be any problem for it to be published as a separate crate, as long as this is done under the same open source license. If anyone is interested in doing so, feel free to continue the discussion here.

Although I didn't really search if anyone made it (or something similar) a separate crate already

I'm not sure about this either, a double-check would be indeed useful to avoid creating something which already exists.

[nicholasbishop]

This crate seems like a similar idea: https://docs.rs/fake-enum/latest/fake_enum/

[nicholasbishop]

Here's another crate with a similar feature: https://docs.rs/open-enum/latest/open_enum/

Given that there are a few crates that do similar things, I'll go ahead and close this issue.