allow to install scriptkeeper without git or cargo

[soenkehahn]

The readme should provide an easy one-liner to install scriptkeeper. This could be done with either some bash script and binary releases to github or with snap.

[astampoulis]

The Rust part in the snap link seems to suggest that it's easy to compile Rust code with musl. If that is indeed so, a binary release on github would be simple to set up and would be a binary that could be dropped in easily in most Linux systems.

[soenkehahn]

The libc crate and the nix crate don't expose the same api when compiling for the target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl. So we can't easily compile a statically linked binary. Not sure how much work that would be, if possible at all.

But I also don't think it's necessary to use a static binary -- as long as the dynamic dependencies are available and installed by default on the systems we want scriptkeeper to be used on. Not sure how to judge that, though...

[soenkehahn]

Just tried to run a scriptkeeper binary on alpine in docker and it doesn't work due to missing dynamic dependencies. So binaries are probably a bad way to distribute this.

[astampoulis]

I do not understand your first point (about the libc and nix crate), maybe we should discuss this offline?

Also, here's one more thing to try out too: clodl exodus. This is for turning a dynamic binary plus all its library dependencies into a standalone package that can work anywhere.

[soenkehahn]

We have an official binary release now: https://github.com/Originate/scriptkeeper/releases