multirust

[DEPRECATED] A tool for managing multiple Rust installations

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[DEPRECATED] A tool for managing multiple Rust installations

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Observed mentions: 2015-06-01 09:58:48 UTC to 2016-01-17 02:59:39 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Jun 2015	2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Jul 2015	2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2015	2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2015	2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
Oct 2015	2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2015	2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Dec 2015	2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
Jan 2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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integraton·Dec 26, 2015

They are tools for managing multiple installed versions of a programming language. When developing software, we often specify dependencies using version numbers, which indicate the version of the language or library that should be used when running the software. Running the software with the specified language runtime or library version ensures that the expected features of that library or language runtime are available and also helps avoid unexpected issues related to differences in the environments, including different developer's local systems as well as remote server environments. In the case of a programming language runtime, if you have one project that's configured to use version 2.2.4 of a language and another that's configured to use version 2.1.0, these tools provide an easy way to install and switch between the two versions. Th

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is is not unique to Ruby, and similar projects exist for other languages. For example, nvm (https://github.com/creationix/nvm) and n (https://github.com/tj/n) provide something similar for Node (JavaScript), gvm (https://github.com/moovweb/gvm) for Go, and multirust (https://github.com/brson/multirust) for Rust.

In Rbenv 1.0.0

steveklabnik·Dec 10, 2015

Run rustup.sh again, and it will Just Work. (If not, that's a bug.) If you want to have multiple versions installed at the same time, https://github.com/brson/multirust is super cool. Generally speaking, installation is something we're working on: working with Linux package maintainers, rolling rustup and multirust together and making them work well cross-platform, etc.

In Rust 1.5