On 07/02/14 00:35, Brian Anderson wrote:
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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Please don't use a shell script that downloads binaries. For years, my
workplace had development machines completely disconnected from the net,
so offline installers were a must. They're also important for admins
who want to download once and install on multiple machines. Basically,
when you click download binaries, what you get should be just that:
binaries, not another downloader to let you get the binaries.
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Lee
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