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Adding bytesize crate
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None, this is not used yet, the project can still be built.
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do we really need this? i ask because the crate only has 67 stars and hasn't been updated in a while. i think it might be better and safer to just keep the sizes as consts. e.g. const MB: u64 = 1_000_000;. then if you need, say, 4MB you can just do 4 * MB
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i ask because the crate only has 67 stars
fwiw the author/maintainer looks legit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyunsikchoi/
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I think 67 stars is fine, it's been updated in the last year, and I agree the maintainer looks legit. That said, I'm concerned that the maintainer doesn't seem to have been answering any GitHub issues recently, and it seems like there are some bugs: https://github.com/hyunsik/bytesize/issues
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Ok, so at first I wanted to create something like constants.rs with all the stuff like mb, kb, etc. But then I thought: why would we do it manually if we probably can use some lib that has it all plus some helper functions in case we need any.
I think it is beneficial to use a library. With that said, if you find the lib I picked too poorly maintained or not suitable for whatever reason, we can look for a different one.
As for this lib, I'm not sure if maintenance is that crucial - what can go wrong in defining a few constants? The sizes of kb, mb, gb, tb will never change, right?
Back to your queue as we seem divided.
Conclusion: I'd stay with what's here, I'd definitely avoid doing it manually if possible (and it is).
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This library seems useful. Also, even though it has only a couple of stars, it was downloaded from crates 4M times (for the comparison, the most popular crate (rand) has 128M downloads), so it's used in a lot of projects.