Rust's simple download script

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Rust has a nice way to download at
> https://www.rust-lang.org/downloads.html for Posix:
> 
> $ curl -sSf https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sh -s --
> 
> The method is simple and transparent. An optional --channel=beta or
> --channel=nightly parameter chooses between a stable release
> (default), beta, or nightly build.
> 
> Should we do something similar?
[...]

Probably...

... though I have to admit that the idea of running a shell script
downloaded from some random remote server (and that, as root, as
otherwise it probably wouldn't work) scares me. A lot.


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