nimbus

nimbus is a Nim build system. You can also call in NimBS. Nimja would also be a clever name but it’s already taken (turns out the name “nimbus” is taken two times already but nobody cares yet).

• Read the manpage online
• Example use:
  • nimble.eclass
  • dev-nim/* ebuilds

Raison d’être

nimble is a great tool for development but it does not get on well with system package managers.

This project is intended to be used with traditional package managers (primarly with Gentoo’s Portage). But maybe it’ll be useful for other purposes too.

Development status

This software is considered completed and stable. No new features are planned, however there will be releases for bug fixes and compatibility updates.

Dependencies

This software has no build dependencies other than the Nim standard library.

nimbus only generates build.ninja files, so you’ll need ninja or samurai to use it.

Installing

• Using nimble:

  nimble install

• Using just Nim compiler (expert):

  nim c src/nimbus
  nim c src/txt2deps
  

Testing

$ testament all

Packaging

You can track new releases using an atom feed provided by GitHub.

Contributing

Patches and pull requests are welcome. Please use either git-send-email(1) or git-request-pull(1), addressed to cyber@sysrq.in.

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IRC

You can join the #nimbus channel either on OFTC or via Matrix.

License

• BSD-3-Clause
• Apache-2.0 (ninja_syntax.nim)