make performs a download

[pnathan]

When you download the 0.6 tarball and execute ./configure && make, a download occurs.

fetch: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/rustc
determined most recent snapshot: rust-stage0-2013-03-28-f7a2371-linux-x86_64-61a4377c6d0ca5814c2b2b752d73b61b741a23c9.tar.bz2

and a wget info dump appears.

It would be really awesome if this piece was integrated with the tarball. Not all environments are friendly to downloading arbitrary code off the net. E.g., I might be in a SCIF[1] and experimenting with Rust on a machine disconnected from the public net. Or I might be on a laptop working in a no-wifi area. :-/

(I know this is probably a real low priority issue, but it IS a (usually minor) hassle)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_Facility

[lucab]

Please note that you can avoid that if you already have a (compatible) locally installed rust compiler. Check the --local-rust and --local-rust-root parameters for ./configure.
Also, I'm against bundling binaries in source tarballs. They are target-dependent and bundling all of them will make the released archive quite large.

Downloading an external bootstrapper is a minor issue for downstream packagers too, though. See https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-packaging

[catamorphism]

far-future

[graydon]

Yeah, you can also just populate the dl/ directory in your builddir with an appropriate snapshot tarball. There's not much else we can do here. Putting binaries in a source tarball feels even worse, to me. Closing as I don't expect we're going to much change the requirements here and have several workable workarounds.