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9933 :: How to use the new nimble develop?

• enthus1ast (orginal) [2023-02-23T19:10:34+01:00] view original

  The new nimble develop (from devel) works differently then the old one.

  What i want to do is:

  work on a module, that is imported into another module.

  Module A has a nimble file.

  require "moduleb"

  
  cd moduleb`
  nimble develop --global
  Run

  
  cd modulea
  nimble runr  # its a nico application
  #...
   Installing moduleb@any version
         Tip: 26 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
  nimble.nim(685)          getDownloadInfo
      
      Error:  Package moduleb@any version not found.
  .
  Run

  when i clear the nimble dirs by hand and try it again:

  
  cd moduleb`
  nimble develop --global
  nimble install
  Run

  then it is picked up by modulea BUT it is then installed:

  
  C:\Users\david\.nimble\pkgs2\moduleb-0.2.0-3a1cda21542c472911ab6a18bda285345c87e256\particlesystem.nim
  Run

  And it does not pick up changes to the development directory. So this is pretty much useless. Any idea how this could work?

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• dxb (orginal) [2023-02-24T07:06:07+01:00] view original

  Related discussions:

  • <https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/970>
  • <https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/948>

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2023-02-24T09:16:11+01:00] view original

  When i create a nimble.devlop file per hand in moduleA's directory

  modulea/nimble.develop

  with the content of

  
  {
      "version": 1,
      "includes": [],
      "dependencies": ["C:\\Users\\david\\projects\\moduleb\\"]
  }
  Run

  or

  
  {
      "version": 1,
      "includes": [],
      "dependencies": ["C:/Users/david/projects/moduleb/"]
  }
  Run

  or

  
  {
      "version": 1,
      "includes": [],
      "dependencies": ["C:/Users/david/projects/moduleb/moduleb.nimble"]
  }
  Run

  it does not work. So it seems nimble develop is broken.

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