Currently the https://rustup.rs/ website makes it really easy to install a Rust toolchain. My aspirational goal for this project is:

Like rustup, but for any Rust app.

To reference another existing project:

Like trust, but more accessible to people who are not rust developers.

Without referencing existing projects, I hope to acomplish this with this project:

• Some sample GitHub Actions workflows that make it easy to a Rust project for many platforms.
• Some one-liner shell (and PowerShell) scripts that make it easy for people to acquire pre-built Rust binaries.

There are some pieces out there that could be used to create this vision:

• The user-experience of the trust program
• The TARGET-detection of rustup-init.sh
• The PATH management of rustup.

One element that does not currently exist in the inspirational codebase is a an easily copy-pasteable command to install something.

See some work-in-progress in Smeagol:

https://github.com/AustinWise/smeagol/commit/93452a9974fc422a1587789a508db531069158a6

There are a couple reasons why spending effort on this might not be the best use of my time:

• Making it easier for Rust programs to take advantage of operating systems' native distribution methods might be a better use of ones time. See cargo-deb.