I have just released a new version of cargo-quickinstall, which now downloads prebuilt binary crates from GitHub Releases.
cargo-quickinstall is a cargo plugin which behaves like cargo install but fetches prebuilt binaries if they are available. Instead of writing:
cargo install ripgrep
you would write:
cargo quickinstall ripgrep
Previously I was hosting my binaries on bintray (which is where homebrew serves its bottles) but this service is being phased out, so I needed to replace it.
I asked at the Rust London Hack and Learn, and the spotify-tui maintainer suggested that I use GitHub Releases. I switched my builder to upload to GitHub Releases shortly after the Hack and Learn, and it has now worked through its build backlog, so now is a good time to start using it for real.
This release still falls back to bintray if it can't find a package on GitHub Releases. Once bintray is fully dead, I will make another release that removes this fallback.
Relatedly, people have asked whether this idea could be applied to speed up the first run of cargo build. I think the answer is yes, and I have an idea of how it might work. Jump on Gitter if you would like to get involved.