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[feature request] Release tarball and/or means to select a system-provided libcst prebuilt binary
Hi,
It seems post version 0.4, this project requires rust and cargo to build, which will connect to the internet to fetch a few extra dependencies. This doesn't mesh well with the way things are built for distributions such as GNU Guix or Nix, where the build happens in a containerized (offline) environment: the source is expected to be self-contained.
Would it be possible to produce some old-fashioned tarball archive that would contain all the vendored crates used? Or alternatively, and even preferably, being able to use a pre-built libcst packaged separately via the libcst crate could be nice (is the output of building the libcst crate a libcst binary?).
Thank you for your consideration!
OK, just built libcst from the crate; it gives me a parse binary:
/gnu/store/n0vw5rp7i4caxnbx01pfcbhqgmy95wby-rust-libcst-1.5.1/bin/parse
I guess I hack hack the Python sources to refer to that instead of attempting to build it itself.