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I personally think that lib and bin implementations should go in separate crates due to how cargo currently handles dependencies

There's no good way of having bin vs lib dependencies which normally means that extra dependencies for the binary get pulled in for the library too unless explicitly disabled through features

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There is no drawback. cargo install uuid will only be done when people want it to install binaries.

This isn't true- there's a maintenence burden associated with it, and that's a pretty clear drawback.

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I don't think we'll be adding binary support to the uuid library itself, since the library supports almost nothing in its default state, and we wouldn't want consumers to have to opt-out of features.

If a good-quality CLI emerges then I'd gladly link it in the readme here, which should help direct anybody coming via search engines specifically looking for a CLI.

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Would the maintainers of this project entertain a PR that adds a uuid binary crate to this package?

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At one point I did start uuid-rs/ruuhid, however I just never around to actually get a functional tool before life got too busy

You are free to PR there and the project could be restarted.

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