This GitHub Action will install a release of a Rust crate for you.

This action will work for any project that satisfies the following conditions:

• The project is a public GitHub project.

• The project uses GitHub releases with semver tag names.

• The project attaches assets to the GitHub release that contain a Rust target. The following targets are looked for:

  Arch	Node Platform	Targets
  x64	linux	x86_64-unknown-linux-musl or x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  x64	darwin	x86_64-apple-darwin
  x64	win32	x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  arm64	linux	aarch64-unknown-linux-musl or aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
  arm64	darwin	aarch64-apple-darwin

• The asset is a .tar.gz or .zip archive that contains a binary with the project name.

In most cases all you will need is to specify repo and the owner/name of the project in your workflow. For example the following installs the latest version of mdBook.

- uses: extractions/setup-crate@v1
  with:
    repo: rust-lang/mdBook

If you want a specific version you can specify this by suffixing version to the input. For example the following installs the latest 0.10.x version of just.

- uses: extractions/setup-crate@v1
  with:
    repo: casey/just@0.10

The semver specification is passed directly to NPM's semver package. This GitHub Action will install the latest matching release. Examples include

• version: '*' latest version (default).
• version: '0.1' equivalent to >=0.1.0 <0.2.0.
• version: '0.1.x' equivalent to >=0.1.0 <0.2.0.
• version: '0.1.0' equivalent to =0.1.0.
• version: '^0.1.0' equivalent to >=0.1.0 <0.2.0.

The following inputs are still supported for now but will be removed in a future release.

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.