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675 :: 0.9.6 and HEAD is now on Homebrew, plus Binary Packages!

• pwernersbach (orginal) [2014-12-16T03:57:03+01:00] view original

  I'm pleased to announce that nimrod 0.9.6 is now in mainline Homebrew for Mac OS X! You can install it by running the following command in the terminal:

  $ brew install nimrod
  Run

  You can also install from the latest sources by running the following:

  $ brew install --HEAD nimrod
  Run

  One of the great things about being on Homebrew is that Homebrew's build bot will generate binary OS X packages for us. Homebrew will install from the binary packages by default, or if you don't have Homebrew installed you can download them manually:

  • Yosemite: https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/nimrod-0.9.6.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
  • Mavericks: https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/nimrod-0.9.6.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
  • Mountain Lion: https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/nimrod-0.9.6.mountain_lion.bottle.tar.gz

  Next Steps: I'm hoping to get nimble into mainline Homebrew. After that I'm hoping to start the process for Debian and Fedora packages as time permits.

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• zio_tom78 (orginal) [2014-12-16T09:06:59+01:00] view original

  Many thanks for this! Several of my coworkers use Mac OS X, this will surely ease adoption!

  If you are be able to create a deb package as well, this will surely be a big achievement for the Nim community as a whole. Advocating the use of Nim will be much easier!

  Will it be easy to rename the package "Nim", once the transition to this name will be completed?

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• pwernersbach (orginal) [2014-12-17T07:07:53+01:00] view original

  Homebrew appears to be open to renames if upstream renames a project, but there appears to be a bug in Homebrew that may complicate renaming the formula. For Homebrew it was a moot point anyways, since there was already a formula for nimrod, it just provided an older version. The process for getting a package included into Debian and Fedora is much more arduous, so I think I may just maintain a separate repository with DEB and RPM packages in it until the next version of Nim is released, and then I will just apply for inclusion for the next version.

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• yglukhov (orginal) [2014-12-22T14:22:19+01:00] view original

  How about adding the info to the "Download" section of the site?

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