cargo add <package>

[shadowmint]

This is probably a no brainer, but I thought I'd drop it in here as a yes-please feature request.

I just discovered that with bower and npm if you install a package into a local directory scope (eg. bower install moment) with a particular flag (in this case bower install moment -S) it not only installs the moment recent version of the package into the local folder; it updates the manifest file automatically:

{
  "name": "configtool",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "underscore": "1.5.2",
    "angular": "1.2.3",
    "angular-resource": "1.2.3",
    "angular-sanitize": "~1.2.3",
    "momentjs": "~2.5.1" // <---- This gets automatically added 
  }
}

This is a really lovely workflow to use, I thought I'd drop it in here as a feature request.

[wycats]

I definitely want cargo add <package-name> [FLAGS], which would add the package to the manifest, with optional flags (such as a Github URL if not using the central repo).

Does that sound like what you want?

[shadowmint]

yep, exactly.

[killercup]

There has been some work on this here and here.

[Turbo87]

@killercup any reason for making this a plugin instead of implementing it right into cargo itself?

[killercup]

@Turbo87 It's nice to test implementations and CLI interfaces in external projects. (Plugin → Built-in is way more easy than Built-in → Plugin.)