Publish to crates.io?

[redoxeon]

This project is super fun! Any chance of publishing it to crates.io?

[lunacookies]

There was a bit of a discussion on Reddit on this topic when we first made the project public, which I still stand by:

I’m split on whether that’s a good idea, because no one would use pipes-rs as a library, and you can just as easily use the cargo install --git command posted by u/charlatanoftime above me. Crate names are very limited; I’d like to avoid contributing to that.

Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I do know about publishing binary-only crates, but I personally think that it’s a waste of crate names when you can almost as easily use cargo install --git. I just realised that, even if I wanted to, publishing pipes-rs would require publishing all its subcrates. At that point versioning of these subcrates has to be introduced, so I think it’s all more trouble than it’s worth.

If you’d like a convenient way to install from source, then you can use

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/lhvy/pipes-rs

In the end it’s down to @lhvy though because it’s his project.

[lhvy]

I agree with @arzg’s point, and I’d prefer to stick to just cargo install --git. It would be nice though if the install link in the readme could be for a specific/latest version, as opposed to the latest commit.

[lunacookies]

Hmmm, it would be trivial to come up with a little one-liner that curls the latest release, untars, and then runs cargo install --path pipes-rs-v1.6.0/ or something.

[redoxeon]

Ah yeah, that's understandable! Didn't think about checking on reddit, so I appreciate the clarification 😄

[lhvy]

Not planned on fixing for reasons listed above, opened a new issue regarding improving the current install instructions.