NEWS: cargo-dist for release engineering

[NobodyXu]

Release Engineering Is Exhausting So Here's cargo-dist

Since it provides similar functionalities to our justfile in cargo-binstall and also overlaps with this project, I think I should at least post it here so that we can have a discussion on this and how it might affect us here.

[passcod]

I've been talking with gankra and looking at cargo dist concurrently while working on this; my conclusions were that while the two exist in the same space, they hace very different approaches that I believe are more complementary in the ecosystem context than competitive.

Dist is looking at a setup-once 1-2-3 experience that is agnostic to CI type and works for the 80% making some opinionated choices without much in the way of escape hatches, while rel-rust for github actions only, offering a polished and complete experience out of the box, while being very customisable. rel-rust also aims to solve package signing, which isn't tackled by dist (at the moment).

What's certainly the case is that there could be shared work here:

• some of the dist internals could be useful to reuse, especially around parsing and obtaining build outputs
• the dist manifest format could be written by rel-rust and also consumed by binstall
• the ability to generate self-installers could be leveraged as well