cargo-binstall vs tool-sync

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cargo-binstall		tool-sync
	Project
24	Mentions	5
1,304	Stars	65
4.8%	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	0.0
about 23 hours ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Rust	Language	Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cargo-binstall

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-binstall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-26.

Cargo Binstall 1.0.0 release
4 projects | /r/rust | 26 Jun 2023

Unfortunately not really usable in production (for me) until https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/issues/1 is fixed :( Really much looking forward to it though, as I think it's a great addition to the Rust ecosystem!
Oxidise your Infrastructure using Shuttle.rs
2 projects | /r/rust | 26 May 2023

Oh looks like cargo-binstall is currently broken (https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/issues/1094)
Ludusavi can now back up your game saves to the cloud and detect Lutris saves
5 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 21 May 2023

Unfortunately, I ended up running into an issue with the zip support, but I'll come back to it once this is fixed: https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/issues/1080
Strange lifetime error: Requires to be `'static`
1 project | /r/rust | 21 Mar 2023

I've encountered a strange lifetime error when developing new features in cargo-binstall:
AMDGPU_TOP - tool to show AMDGPU usage
5 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 16 Mar 2023

Once you feel like releasing it, could you please add binstall support?
[rcargo] quick tool for faster crate building on remote workstations
2 projects | /r/rust | 10 Mar 2023

I think in a similar vein there is cargo-binstall that is a cargo install alternative that attempts to use pre-built binary artifacts when possible
Faster Apple Builds with the lld Linker
1 project | /r/rust | 4 Mar 2023

I hope ld64 and lld add supports for plugin-opt I'm trying to enable cross-lang-lto on MacOS but failed due to -plugin-opt not supported.
Install a CLI in a project (not globally)
6 projects | /r/rust | 24 Feb 2023

You can use cargo-binstall --install-path to install binaries to custom locations.
Release engineering is exhausting so here's cargo-dist
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2023

If you happen to install a lot of things with cargo, check out cargo-binstall: https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall
It'll fetch the binary release from the repo so you don't have to compile it yourself.
Thoughts about updating a rust cli via a sub command for improved dev experience
1 project | /r/rust | 22 Jan 2023

I'd recommend to use cargo-binstall, which can download pre-built artifacts from github release.

tool-sync

Posts with mentions or reviews of tool-sync. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-30.

Tool-sync: Download pre-built binaries of your favourite CLI tools
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2022
tool-sync v0.2.0: Improve output + the new 'install' command + lots of contributions 🎉
1 project | /r/rust | 20 Sep 2022

chshersh/tool-sync
tool-sync: A Rust CLI tool to easily install your other favourite Rust CLI tools
6 projects | /r/rust | 30 Aug 2022
What's everyone working on this week (34/2022)?
10 projects | /r/rust | 22 Aug 2022

Working on a tool to download favourite CLI tools from GitHub release assets with a single command (mostly tools written in Rust for now).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cargo-binstall and tool-sync you can also consider the following projects:

pwninit - pwninit - automate starting binary exploit challenges

sshkm - Tool to sync ssh public keys from Github for all users on a server

cargo-quickinstall - pre-compiled binary packages for `cargo install` [Moved to: https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-quickinstall]

matchhostfsowner - Solves the Docker host filesystem owner matching problem

ez_term - Terminal UI framework based on templates and focused on simplicity.

procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

nue - I/O and binary data encoding for Rust

course-plan - 📜 Haskell course info, plan, video lectures, slides

docker-cargo-binstall

OpenT5 - An open-source reimplementation of T5 in Rust

amdgpu_top - Tool to display AMDGPU usage

discord-urls-extractor - Rust program for extracting most URLs from Discord scrapes. Works with Discord History Tracker, discard2, and DiscordChatExporter.