I second the request to get NIM package de-orphaned for Arch...
With the same argument, it would also be necessary for Nim to have an official
package for debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix, Homebrew…
I think maintaining packages is in better hands with those people who use the
package managers.
I maintain the [Nim
package](https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/blob/master/bucket/nim.json) for
[scoop](http://scoop.sh), which is another package manager for Windows.
Unlike Chocolatey, it installs software into homedir therefore does not require
admin privileges. Its interface is similar t
I think that it would have to be some kind of "official" package, maintained by
the same group that maintain Nim releases — that is to guarantee that it
doesn't get abandoned. I also have the impression that this would speed up the
process of having Choco-packages updates approved sooner by the
Yeah, the chocolatey package is unmaintanied by a 3rd party and has been for a
while. You could file to go through the process to take over the package.
I've Nim 0.15.2 announcement I've read that:
> For Windows we now provide zipfiles in addition to the NSIS based installer
> which proves to be hard to maintain and after all these months still has
> serious issues. So we encourage you download the .zip file instead of the
> .exe file!
and in
