Support cargo binstall for easy binary installations

[Daniel Parks]

It would be really nice if this natively supported cargo-binstall. It would make installation much easier and faster, and in particular would be nice for CI.

It is currently possible to install with binstall, but it requires a bit of configuration:

❯ cargo binstall -y --pkg-url="{ repo }/releases/download/v{ version }/{ name }_v{ version }_Darwin_x86_64{ archive-suffix }" --pkg-fmt="tar" cargo-msrv
 INFO resolve: Resolving package: 'cargo-msrv'
 WARN resolve: The package will be downloaded from github.com
 INFO resolve: This will install the following binaries:
 INFO resolve:   - cargo-msrv (cargo-msrv -> /Users/daniel/.cargo/bin/cargo-msrv-v0.15.1)
 INFO resolve: And create (or update) the following symlinks:
 INFO resolve:   - cargo-msrv (/Users/daniel/.cargo/bin/cargo-msrv -> cargo-msrv-v0.15.1)
 INFO install: Installing binaries...
 INFO Done in 3.526309163s

I think all that would be required would be to rename the uploaded release assets with the Rust target, e.g. “x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu” (or whatever) rather than “Linux_x86_64”.

You can get more information about how to support binstall in their SUPPORT.md document.

[Martijn Gribnau]

Sure! Currently this can also be achieved with the docker image.

I think all that would be required would be to rename the uploaded release assets with the Rust target, e.g. “x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu” (or whatever) rather than “Linux_x86_64”.

This part was already on my long term planning list. I will try to prioritize it more.

[Christopher Durham]

This can now be fairly easily handled by using cargo-dist to build and upload the binaries.

[Martijn Gribnau]

This can now be fairly easily handled by using cargo-dist to build and upload the binaries.

I saw the announcement; but didn't read it in detail yet, so maybe I'm wrong about the following: I was under the impression that there was no support yet for including custom files (with cargo-msrv we include a third party licenses file).

In any case, I think it shouldn't be too difficult to refactor the current workflow slightly by editing the archive name generation step, and adding a step to create a custom binary name; all information necessary is already present.

Thanks for the link though!

[Martijn Gribnau]

Available from https://github.com/foresterre/cargo-msrv/releases/tag/v0.16.0-beta.6.

Output on windows:

❯ cargo binstall cargo-msrv --version 0.16.0-beta.6
 INFO resolve: Resolving package: 'cargo-msrv'
 WARN The package cargo-msrv v0.16.0-beta.6 will be downloaded from github.com
 INFO This will install the following binaries:
 INFO   - cargo-msrv (cargo-msrv.exe -> C:\Users\a\.cargo\bin\cargo-msrv-v0.16.0-beta.6.exe)
 INFO And create (or update) the following symlinks:
 INFO   - cargo-msrv (C:\Users\a\.cargo\bin\cargo-msrv.exe -> C:\Users\a\.cargo\bin\cargo-msrv-v0.16.0-beta.6.exe)
Do you wish to continue? yes/[no]
? yes
 INFO Installing binaries...
 INFO Done in 7.4288333s

Output on Ubuntu:

❯ cargo binstall cargo-msrv --version 0.16.0-beta.6
 INFO resolve: Resolving package: 'cargo-msrv'
 WARN The package cargo-msrv v0.16.0-beta.6 will be downloaded from github.com
 INFO This will install the following binaries:
 INFO   - cargo-msrv (cargo-msrv -> /home/a/.cargo/bin/cargo-msrv-v0.16.0-beta.6)
 INFO And create (or update) the following symlinks:
 INFO   - cargo-msrv (/home/a/.cargo/bin/cargo-msrv -> cargo-msrv-v0.16.0-beta.6)
Do you wish to continue? yes/[no]
? yes
 INFO Installing binaries...
 INFO Done in 7.443174378s

Since I don't have a mac, I can't test it on macOS, so 🤞

[Daniel Parks]

Thanks, it works perfectly on macOS:

❯ cargo binstall cargo-msrv --version 0.16.0-beta.6
 INFO resolve: Resolving package: 'cargo-msrv'
 WARN resolve: The package will be downloaded from github.com
 INFO resolve: This will install the following binaries:
 INFO resolve:   - cargo-msrv (cargo-msrv -> /Users/daniel/.cargo/bin/cargo-msrv-v0.16.0-beta.6)
 INFO resolve: And create (or update) the following symlinks:
 INFO resolve:   - cargo-msrv (/Users/daniel/.cargo/bin/cargo-msrv -> cargo-msrv-v0.16.0-beta.6)
Do you wish to continue? yes/[no]
? y
 INFO install: Installing binaries...
 INFO Done in 6.984581909s