Suggestion: Provide pre-built binaries

[cocowalla]

It would be nice to provide pre-built binaries and make them available using releases, so users didn't have to install Rust and build it themselves.

Just a friendly suggestion :)

[rseymour]

I'm torn between setting up a build pipeline and just dropping some binaries as we compile them. We'd probably distribute a zip with the example config. The visualization stuff requires yarn/npm stuff so that we'd likely not package until that story gets a little more clear to me, I'm not a front end person. Do you have a particular platform you'd like me to do first?

[cocowalla]

Windows would be great, thanks!

[rseymour]

That's the one with the most OS dependencies to install. I think we should be able to get one up this week, I'll let you know (even I don't have the setup on my mac laptop to do the windows build at the moment)

[rseymour]

Sorry we haven't gotten to this yet! Just noting that we haven't forgotten.

[rseymour]

A further option is to use the docker stuff that was added to the docker directory. For now I think the route is make a proper crate and then setup a 'trust' style CI: https://github.com/japaric/trust assuming that all works. I think we want to do that but it will take us a while. I will try to get a build in the interim, but for now that's the longer term plan.