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dom96 / Aporia

IDE/Advanced text editor mainly focusing on support for the Nim programming language.
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Dependencies with #head #135

Closed davidsblog closed 7 years ago

davidsblog commented 7 years ago

At the moment, I cannot build Aporia with nimble, I get an error about version conflicts of the GTK wrapper. However, if I hack the aporia.nimble file and remove #head from the GTK2 dependency then it will build fine. So I'm wondering if the practice of using #head in a dependency is more likely to break? Would it be a more reliable build if dependencies always used a version number? Just a thought...

dom96 commented 7 years ago

So I'm wondering if the practice of using #head in a dependency is more likely to break?

No... if you're using a bleeding release of Nimble then things are likely to break: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/289

davidsblog commented 7 years ago

Fair enough, I was just making a suggestion... But I haven't figured out where to find a stable release of Aporia Nimble yet, so perhaps I should do that instead :-)

dom96 commented 7 years ago

nimble install aporia should work now to get you a stable release of aporia. Nimble grabs the latest tagged version by default, which is typically more stable than the git HEAD.

davidsblog commented 7 years ago

That's great! I've just done that and it has worked perfectly. I appreciate that.

Out of curiosity, is there such a thing as a stable release of Nimble (I'm using Nim 0.15.2)? I'm wondering if there is a better Nimble version than the one I'm using (I used the install_nimble.nims script from 0.15.2 to install it). I'm guessing that has given me the bleeding edge release of Nimble.

dom96 commented 7 years ago

The stable release of Nimble is typically the latest tagged release. The install_nimble.nims script shouldn't install bleeding edge, please report that on the Nim repo :)

davidsblog commented 7 years ago

Cool. I will double-check versions from the install_nimble.nims and pulling the latest from GitHub just in case I've done something silly. But if the script does give me the same version then I'll report it. Cheers.