pyoxidizer: allow specifying an existing project crate #468
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While building directly with cargo is possible (#467), a lot of the convenience that pyoxidizer provides is lost - you need to construct rather long command lines, and manually bundle files up separately (#466). What if instead of an all-or-nothing approach, pyoxidizer provided limited support for building from an existing Rust crate?
With this PR, the user can build a project created with init-rust-project with a single short command line:
It also happens to be somewhat faster, as crates like jemalloc don't get recompiled each time.
It would come with caveats:
What do you think?