On 11/09/2015 06:09 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
Rust has a nice way to download at
https://www.rust-lang.org/downloads.html for Posix:
$ curl -sSf https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sh -s --
The method is simple and transparent. An optional --channel=beta or
--channel=nightly parameter chooses between a stable release
(default), beta, or nightly build.
Should we do something similar?
[...]
Probably...
... though I have to admit that the idea of running a shell script
downloaded from some random remote server (and that, as root, as
otherwise it probably wouldn't work) scares me. A lot.
Piping through less would be a natural first thing to do. Also, let's
not forget that installing from the same site carries the same risks. --
Andrei
