Timothee Cour

proposal: * write a tool that splits existing json into its individual array elements (ie 1 per package), and saves them as mypkg.json for a package called `mypkg` * the...

@yglukhov * please report `GetLastError` refs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/errhandlingapi/nf-errhandlingapi-getlasterror * can't the more portable std/dynlib be used instead of raw OS calls?

see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131127-00/?p=2553 which provides more info on how to debug `ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND`; it could be that a dependent dll can't be found

* please always try on latest devel when reporting issues and mention the corresponding hash; it saves time for whoever's looking at bug reports; also, a sample command would help...

how was `/home/kmodi/nim/1.2.0` installed? with choosenim I have: /Users/timothee/.choosenim/toolchains//nim-1.2.0/doc/nimdoc.css > is the doc/ directory the best place for that? Should it rather live along with other sources, may be in...

I'm fine with the idea of a miminal footprint install, but this really should be done via some API (tested in testament), not by guessing which files to include, otherwise...

@shirleyquirk please cross-link to avoid splitting discussion; i did it for you here: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7679#48913 choosenim installs it to: /Users/timothee/.choosenim/toolchains//nim-1.4.4/doc/nimdoc.css > Arch puts them under /usr/share/nim/doc maybe that's the bug? can...

can't we fix the distro's installation scripts so that they don't shuffle the installation files in a platform specific way? there are other things besides `nimdoc.css` that need to be...

can you point to the source code where those packaging instructions are written?

> https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/doc/packaging.rst these instructions are out of date, and should be updated (eg to use `sh build_all.sh` among other things) we in fact shouldn't rely on bash commands to run...