On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 08:29:11 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 13:05 -0700, Parke via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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Nim includes an install.sh script. It worked for me.
install.sh calls koch, both of these are created by running
build.sh.
Running koch builds the executable for installation which
requires extra
compilations one critical part of which does not happen. So the
built
system is fine but the installable version will not build.
According to the Nim docs ( http://nim-lang.org/download.html
) "There
are other ways to install Nim (like using the install.sh
script), but
these tend to cause more problems." I am not sure what these
unspecified problems are. I used Nim only briefly, so perhaps
there
problems are lurking and I just did not encounter them.
The Nim developers seem disinterested in fixing things for
early adopters,
which is sad.
Neither is it a good strategy. How are they supposed to build up
a user base (and get input), if they don't care for potential
users, especially now that they are going on about how great the
language is.
