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by superkuh 1643 days ago
It's cool but it only works if you have a rust compiler that can actual compile this (1.55.0) and no one does. That means you have to install a compiler from outside of your system repositories 100% of the time. Is suggesting everyone,

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

... really such a great idea? Even ignoring the curl | sh it's going to bork many systems now having two rusts. Rust projects you're supposed to compile are not ready for use by anyone but other bleeding edge Rust devs.

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Under actions, the project is being CI'd and the artifacts are kept there eg: https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch/actions/runs/15284... But yeah, actual releases would be nice.
Sadly the standard these days is compile everything in a container. Avoid any conflict by taking the path of least resistance.
I'd argue that that is a failure install and failure to compile. You don't have a binary that can run on your actual system. When I run MS Office in a Windows virtual machine I am running it but it is not cross-platform or running on Linux. I'm virtualizing it. The same applies here.