Often there are no binaries for some Rust-based packages on P3M

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This is my first post to the forum, so apologies if I used it incorrectly.

I noticed that many binaries for prqlr and string2path are missing on P3M.
It makes sense that a distribution like Debian stable, which I assume has a very old rustc installed, would have no binaries, but I am wondering why other distributions seem to have no binaries as well.
I would appreciate it if you could investigate what is causing these.

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Thanks for the report. We noticed this too when first adding Rust support a while back. I think it is all the distro rust packages being too old, so installing via Rustup should be the fix. We already use Rustup on Windows, and just hadn't done the same for Linux yet.

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Thanks for the reply!

I think I saw no binaries even when the distribution's rustc should be able to build newer than the package's MSRV, but I may be mistaken.
If the latest rustc is always used that would be great!