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nimble file should avoid @#head when possible #431

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c-blake opened this issue Aug 27, 2020 · 1 comment
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nimble file should avoid @#head when possible #431

c-blake opened this issue Aug 27, 2020 · 1 comment

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c-blake commented Aug 27, 2020

See c-blake/hldiff#1 (comment) & 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.

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c-blake commented Sep 18, 2020

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.

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