Comment by josephg

> Let’s be clear: the goal is to distribute a tarball which the receiver can build.

Thanks for clearing that up. What problem does that solve? I've never tried to do that, but I can see how it would be a pain in the neck.

I wonder how hard that would be to fix. It doesn't sound like a difficult feature to implement in cargo. I wonder how amenable the cargo devs would be to adding something like that?