Include rustbook binary in the official release artifacts?

[tatsuya6502]

As far as I know, the official release artifacts (e.g. rust-1.9.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz) contain rustc, cargo and rustdoc binaries. Why don't we add rustbook binary as well?

I have been working on Japanese translation of The Rust Programming Language and it requires rustbook binary to build HTML files. On my CI environment, I am using rustbook crate, which is basically a copy of tools/rustbook in this repository (rust-lang/rust).

It is not too bad but it is tedious to keep the rustbook crate up-to-date to the original in this repository. It would be much easier to me and other people using rustbook if the official release artifacts contain it.

[steveklabnik]

We are moving towards mdbook anyway, with the new book, so it's more likely that rustbook will just dissappear.

[tatsuya6502]

Thank you for the response. I am really exited about the new book.

mdbook is fine to me. We are also translating Rust by Example to Japanese, so we are already using it.

I see The Rustonomicon and The Style Guidelines are also using rustbook. Please let me know if you need any help to convert them into mdbook format.

[tatsuya6502]

Actually, I was confused mdBook with node.js-based GitBook. I tried mdBook a couple of weeks ago and I liked it.