Open equal-l2 opened 1 month ago
From where does cargo-bintsall source the binaries?
Sorry for the late reply, according to the README:
Binstall works by fetching the crate information from crates.io and searching the linked repository for matching releases and artifacts, falling back to the quickinstall third-party artifact host, to alternate targets as supported, and finally to cargo install as a last resort.
cargo-binstall also has a github action to automatically create binaries for windows macos Linux etc.. that rust devs can use to build releases it can use. https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-quickinstall also another binary installer registry.
Please confirm these before moving forward.
Describe the improvement
cargo-binstall
is a third-party companion tool for cargo that downloads and installs a binary package instead of building from the source.Describe how this improvement could help users
Cargo compiles packages from the source, which is somewhat resource-intensive.
cargo-binstall
reduces the demand by using the binary package.