Development starting Kind of working, still under development.

binst's goal is to provide a simple way to publish and install Rust-based binaries without the need for cargo-install or OS-dependent package managers' complexity.

In short, supports publishing the release binary to a custom S3 via env and profile, and installing via publish https/http or S3 via env/profile.

Note - There other similar projects. Use what works for you. This one is under heavy development for now.

Install

On the development machine, cargo install (can install the binary way as well) sh cargo install binst

On the install machine, binary install ```sh

download linux

curl -O https://binst.io/self/binst/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/v0.1.0-rc-1/binst.tar.gz

download mac

curl -O https://binst.io/self/binst/x86_64-apple-darwin/v0.1.0-rc-1/binst.tar.gz

untar

tar -xvf binst.tar.gz

install self (will create and copy self to ~/.binst/...)

./binst self

You can add the 'source "$HOME/.binst/env"' in your sh file

1) On mac: echo '\nsource "$HOME/.binst/env"' >> ~/.zshenv

2) On linux: echo 'source "$HOME/.binst/env"' >> ~/.bashrc

You can now delete the download binst file

```

CLI Examples

Note: You need to have a AWS S3 repository and the credential either as environment variables or as a aws profile

On the development machine, to publish to a repo.

```sh

Publish to S3

Note: publish the --release, with the Cargo.tml version. This will become the latest stable version

binst publish -r s3://myrepobucket/reporoot --profile myaws_profile ```

On other machines, once binst installed (see below for the binary only version install)

```sh

Install the latest stable version published (the one in the info.toml)

binst install coolcli -r s3://mydomain.com/myrepo

install from a http/https URL (any dir can be a repo)

binst install cool_cli -r https://

then, you can run the cool_cli (assuming ~/.binst/bin/ has been added to the PATH)

cool_cli ....

```

Note: For now a binst install ... will reinstall the binary for the latest version. It won't do any semver comparison.

Scope and Concepts

• Not for end users - binst is not for end-users, but for developers and the technical community.
• Not a package manager - Dumb is the new smart, use real package manager if dumb is not enough.
• No Windows support (yet) - Sorry, do not have one around. Pull request welcome though.
• No central repository - Decentralized first.
• Simple repo layout - There can be only one.
• Few protocols - S3 to publish, https/s3 to install. Git planned

Repo layout

Assuming the command:

sh binst install cool_cli -r s3://my-bucket/my_repo

Binst will look at - Will get the info.toml for the s3://my-bucket/my_repo/cool_cli/[arch-target]/info.toml - Will read the stable.version (latest stable version) property from the info.toml - Will download the - s3://my-bucket/my_repo/cool_cli/[arch-target]/v[semver]/cool_cli.tar.gz - In the $HOMDIR/.binst/packages/cool_cli/v[semver]/cool_cli.tar.gz - Unpack the cool_cli.tar.gz into $HOMDIR/.binst/packages/cool_cli/v[semver]/unpacked/ - Do a symlink from $HOMDIR/.binst/bin/cool_cli --> $HOMDIR/.binst/packages/cool_cli/v[semver]/unpacked/cool_cli

info.toml format

It contains only one version stable, which will be taken into account when doing an install. (will allow installing specific version later)

e.g., s3://my-bucket/my_repo/cool_cli/[arch-target]/info.toml toml [stable] version = "0.3.2"

Local directory store

• ~/.binst/
  • bin/ cratename -> ../packages/cratename/v0.1.3/upacked/cratename
  • packages/
    • cratename/
      • v0.1.3/ install.toml (version and repo of the download. Will be user for the future 'binst update' command) cratename.tar.gz (downloaded package) unpacked/cratename (the executable)

Targets

• Tested so far:
  • x8664-apple-darwin (only one tested/supported so far !!!!)
  • x8664-unknown-linux-gnu
• Plan to test
  • aarch64-apple-darwin
• Not planned (but pull request welcome)
  • aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html