Short of building distribution packages and offering those as binaries for the download, this seems like a simple way to offer a download.
It's not perfect though, and I think we're going to try to create binaries for download alternatively.
It's not perfect though, and I think we're going to try to create binaries for download alternatively.
I don't believe Cargo install is meant to be used as a general purpose distribution tool; though I know it's tempting to bypass the package manager especially when it's so easy.
From what I understand cargo install is supposed to help around rust ecosystem tooling such as installing clippy, xargo and rls, where cargo has much more context than the package manager.
From the RFC the motivations for `cargo install` existing:
> Simple tasks like installing a new cargo subcommand, installing an editor plugin, etc,
https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1200-cargo-install.html