rsblocks VS cargo-mutants

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Why do you spawn a shell running date to get the date in the given format instead of using the library included in rust, which seems to support the same strftime format string as date does?

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Hi Rusty!

For a later hack in the same vein, check out https://github.com/sourcefrog/cargo-mutants

cargo-mutants got a couple of releases over the weekend, fixing some environment-triggered bugs on Windows and Linux ecryptfs, and adding a better overall progress indicator (demo: https://asciinema.org/a/481375). It is getting better at avoiding uninteresting or pointless mutations, although there's a lot more to do there, and at printing function name paths well.

While working on Conserve and cargo-mutants I felt that existing Rust progress-bar libraries like Indicatif didn't give me enough control of how the bar was drawn, or at least I was working around them to insert my own text. For example, I wanted to draw several counters into a single line, and it seems like the only way to do that is to just push in a text string.

Continuing with some fast-follow enhancements in cargo-mutants in response to user feedback: for example doctests are typically slow and in some trees not important for coverage, so you can now skip them.

I got cargo-mutants to a state where I felt I could announce it and ask for public feedback.