README.md should specify the nightly version to use

[spease]

Seems like every time I try to build clippy, it's broken with the current nightly. Probably because the instructions fetch from crates.io, and crates.io doesn't seem to be updated as frequently as it needs to be to keep pace with nightly.

Assuming the current release cadence remains constant, I'd start specifying the version of nightly that clippy needs, or remove the instructions altogether and recommend that people build from source as the only supported method. Rather than outlining a method that does not seem to work most of the time because the official version is usually behind nightly.

[jfuzaroa]

Yeah cargo +nightly install clippy seems to fail quite often. Hopefully they fix this issue.

[JoshLambda]

and recommend that people build from source

Not sure that would help since building from source is currently broken too (see #2704).

[oli-obk]

You can still use cargo install, but you'd need to pass the address of this repo via the appropriate flag

[phansch]

Closing this as Clippy can now be installed via Rustup. If you still want to use Clippy on nightly, this website can be helpful: https://mexus.github.io/rustup-components-history/