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nimble file should avoid @#head when possible #431

Open c-blake opened 4 years ago

c-blake commented 4 years ago

See https://github.com/c-blake/hldiff/issues/1#issuecomment-682113924 & subsequent.

Seems the opengl@#head goes back to Summer 2018 and there have been a great many releases since. Presumably there is one of them that would work better than #head.

c-blake commented 4 years ago

Specifically, the @#head dependency means that on an end-nimble user's pkgs directory, the version will be frozen to their dependency-install-time version - maybe years ago, not the current version control opengl@#head. So, this kind of dependency is just about maximally unreliable in terms of nimble install nimx producing a working install. Personally, I view this as very unintuitive nimble behavior, but it seems not likely to change anytime soon.