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7036 :: Changes to 1.4 affecting packaging

• nealie (orginal) [2020-11-05T09:57:47+01:00] view original

  Hi.

  I've just updated the FreeBSD port of nim to 1.4, only to find that the source archive has been changed, without a change of the version number. This of course breaks my fresh committed port.

  I've updated the port to the latest version and now I'm seeing some other changes:

  • Is the source of fusion now included in the source archive? Before it was a separate git repository. There is a koch option to build fusion, which I am not selecting, but it still seems to be being built anyway.
  • Is nimble now also included? Again, this was a separate git repository, which is why I have made a separate FreeBSD port for it (randomly fetching stuff from git is now allowed in a FreeBSD port as all source ode must be checked against known checksums).

  Any guidance on these changes would be gratefully accepted, as it took me a long time to get the FreeBSD port updated as it is because of the changes to generating the documentation.

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-11-05T10:07:49+01:00] view original

  The fact that we ship both Nimble and Fusion is deliberate and you don't need to run "koch fusion" for the source archive. Sorry for the inconveniences but the upcoming versions will follow this model too so please update the port.

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• nealie (orginal) [2020-11-05T10:57:05+01:00] view original

  I'm happy that everything is included in the source now, as it saves me from maintaining two ports. I was mostly surprised by the change in the 1.4 source distribution, with no corresponding version number change as it broke my newly committed port on it's first package build.

  One observation I have now though: since nimble is included in the source, it is now tied to the release of nim itself. Will nimble development be synchronised with nim releases, or should I keep the separate nimble port, which allows for updates at any time?

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-11-05T11:09:17+01:00] view original

  Well it always was tied to the release of Nim itself... And yeah, we do synchronize the releases. :-)

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