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Binary installation for rust projects

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2022-12-15 · latest 2026-05-28

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  1. cargo-binstall support would be nice. https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/blob/main/SUPPO...
    comment by esafak · 2026-05-28 · in Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
  2. Any chance of binstall support? https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall
    comment by esafak · 2026-02-27 · in Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
  3. In the Rust ecosystem, you only publish lock files for binary crates. So yeah then you get churn like https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/releases/tag/v1... bumping transitive deps, but this churn/noise doesn't exist for library…
    comment by Liskni_si · 2025-09-16 · in Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
  4. If you happen to install a lot of things with cargo, check out cargo-binstall: https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall It'll fetch the binary release from the repo so you don't have to compile it yourself.
    comment by bin_bash · 2023-02-02 · in Release engineering is exhausting so here's cargo-dist
  5. …are often not as up to date as directly from cargo. [0] https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit [1] https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall [2] https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update
    comment by satvikpendem · 2022-12-15 · in Rust 1.66