Use system installed Rust without rustup

I am using Debian/testing, with Rust 1.32.0, which I guess is recent enough.

I don’t want to install rustup. The installation method is scary, using curl <random url> | sh doesn’t feel safe to me.

Is there a way to use corrosion without rustup?

By the way, I tried the manual method, and here is the result:

> ./rustup-init 
error: it looks like you have an existing installation of Rust at:
error: /usr/bin
error: rustup cannot be installed alongside Rust. Please uninstall first
error: if this is what you want, restart the installation with `-y'
error: cannot install while Rust is installed

So I don’t have any clue for now.

[mickaelistria]

Rustup is necessary to install RLS. If you’re scared by rustup you can simply audit the .sh file so you’ll feel better, or just trust the fact that it’s an official Rust project so you can trust this script as much as you trust installing the rust compiler.

In any case, it’s not something that we can change in corrosion.

[norru]

@Glandos

Having a two months old release instead of the last release that is one month old

In RLS/Corrosion terms, two months is “ancient” 😉. In fact, it tends to target nightly. In the future, this is going to improve as the feature set stabilizes. Even if the RLS team have decided to change the version number with 1.x, this was a mistake in my opinion, as most features, as well as the interface itself, are, currently, quite in-flux.

I don’t think it’s even possible to build RLS with stable.

Said that I do understand your concern and your points are, in the general discourse, valid. Thing is, at the moment, my understanding is that what you are asking for is not even close to being a priority.