Ah, I wasn't aware that the meta tag existed, everything about publishing crates seemed to point to using github (or a self-hosted repository of various support

Ah, I wasn't aware that the meta tag existed, everything about publishing crates seemed to point to using github (or a self-hosted repository of various supported VCSes) Thanks. The example using a less-commonly-known package distribution method is probably causing the confusion in Animats' original comment.