Hey.
One of my goals for 0.10 is to make the Rust installation and upgrade
experience better. My personal ambitions are to make Rust installable
with a single shell command, distribute binaries, not source, and to
have both nightlies and point releases.
Since we're already able to create highly-compatible snapshot compilers,
it should be relatively easy to extend our snapshot procedure to produce
complete binaries, installable via a cross-platform shell script. This
would require the least amount of effort and maintenance because we
don't need to use any specific package managers or add new bots, and a
single installer can work on all Linuxes.
We can also attempt to package Rust with various of the most common
package managers: homebrew, macports, dpkg, rpm. There
community-maintained packages for some of these already, so we don't
necessarily need to redevelop from scratch if we just want to adopt one
or all of them as official packages. We could also create a GUI
installer for OS X, but I'm not sure how important that is.
What shall we do?
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