Cargo Backend experimental

You may install packages directly from Cargo Crates even if there isn't an asdf plugin for it.

The code for this is inside of the mise repository at ./src/forge/cargo.rs.

Dependencies

This relies on having cargo installed. You can either install it on your system via rustup:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Or you can install it via mise:

mise use -g rust

Usage

The following installs the latest version of eza and sets it as the active version on PATH:

$ mise use -g cargo:eza
$ eza --version
eza - A modern, maintained replacement for ls
v0.17.1 [+git]
https://github.com/eza-community/eza

The version will be set in ~/.config/mise/config.toml with the following format:

[tools]
"cargo:eza" = "latest"

Configuration

Set these with mise settings set [VARIABLE] [VALUE] or by setting the environment variable listed.

cargo_binstall

• Type: bool
• Env: MISE_CARGO_BINSTALL
• Default: true

If true, mise will use cargo binstall instead of cargo install if cargo-binstall is installed and on PATH. This makes installing CLIs with cargo much faster by downloading precompiled binaries.

You can install it with mise:

mise use -g cargo:cargo-binstall