> We can also attempt to package Rust with various of the most common package managers: homebrew, macports, dpkg, rpm.
It would be great to have these for the point releases, but do all of these allow for nightly builds? On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Brian Anderson <[email protected]>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? > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >
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