Make errors more informative when cargo metadata fails #260
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When the a call to
cargo metadata
fails the only output the user sees is "Error: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0" which doesn't explain anything. This change adds additional context.I have made the choice to try to print stderr if it can be decoded as utf-8 because that is where I believe all the useful stuff will always be. If decoding fails I print the debug format for the Output struct which will at least have some information.
fixes: #242