Crates.io binary

[cryptoquick]

Issue summary It'd be really convenient to install this binary via cargo install.

Other information and links When you'd go to publish on Crates, you'll notice there's someone squatting forest

However, I'd recommend just going for the gold here. Nobody's had the bravery to publish a filecoin Rust binary just yet. So. The question you should ask yourselves... Are you thinking of cutting an actual release yet?

[austinabell]

Great question, this is definitely a plan, but we will go through the process of releasing all subcrates when we are maintaining interop and things stabilized, not worth the time sink yet.

Also, we do have a good chunk of the core crates published and are being used, but just not the ones coming out to the actual forest binary yet because there is no concrete need

[cryptoquick]

I think the concrete need is simply from a user perspective. It's also not too difficult, unless you haven't published to Crates yet. For some reason, the Crates publish process is a lot more rigorous, so sometimes things pop up on a dry run. What's harder is when someone else squats the crate, which is my primary concern. If you want to publish under forest, then you'll have to deal with Crate-squatting, which, I'm not sure if there's a good solution to that yet. If you're fine with filecoin, you don't have to worry about squatting... Yet.

[austinabell]

I think the concrete need is simply from a user perspective. It's also not too difficult, unless you haven't published to Crates yet. For some reason, the Crates publish process is a lot more rigorous, so sometimes things pop up on a dry run. What's harder is when someone else squats the crate, which is my primary concern. If you want to publish under forest, then you'll have to deal with Crate-squatting, which, I'm not sure if there's a good solution to that yet. If you're fine with filecoin, you don't have to worry about squatting... Yet.

No I agree this is ideal to have, but the issue is releasing and maintaining versions is a bit premature, as we are still a week or two away from maintaining interop and having and usable client. As I mentioned, we have a lot of the core crates released, but it's not worth the maintenance yet, especially with things that are changing in the Filecoin protocol

[cryptoquick]

Gotcha, I don't have a good sense for the project timeline. Nonetheless, a worthwhile feature to keep around.

There's also a few somewhat orthogonal matters here. I haven't looked, but I'm assuming you have a HTTP JSON-RPC API that you want to make available. However, I think it might be a good idea to distribute a sort of filecoin_embed, in addition to, say, filecoin_http and a CLI binary, simply, filecoin. It's good to have many use-cases covered in a tool like this. It's a huge selling point for the project.

[lemmih]

Done!