Anyone interested in packaging nim-lang?

[Ankur Sinha]

Hi folks,

One of my packages, taskopen[1], has moved to nim in the latest release.
I'd like to update it, but I've never used nim (and don't intend to) and
so, don't want to maintain a nim-lang stack all by myself.

Any folks in the community interested in packaging and maintaining nim?
I'll very happy to help, but I'd rather not be the primary maintainer.

https://nim-lang.org/
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/

package manager:
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble

[1] https://github.com/jschlatow/taskopen/blob/v2.0.1/Makefile#L31


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Regards,
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[Riya Bisht]

Hello,

I'm interested to package and maintain nim-lang. I've never used nim before
but i would like to start packaging for fedora. I can learn nim in the
process. Could you please help me to get started with this?

Thanks,
Regards,
Riya Bisht

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, 4:19 pm Ankur Sinha, <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi folks,
>
>  One of my packages, taskopen[1], has moved to nim in the latest release.
>  I'd like to update it, but I've never used nim (and don't intend to) and
>  so, don't want to maintain a nim-lang stack all by myself.
>
>  Any folks in the community interested in packaging and maintaining nim?
>  I'll very happy to help, but I'd rather not be the primary maintainer.
>
>  https://nim-lang.org/
>  https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/
>
>  package manager:
>  https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble
>
>  [1] https://github.com/jschlatow/taskopen/blob/v2.0.1/Makefile#L31
>
>
>  --
>  Thanks,
>  Regards,
>  Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 17:11:06 +0530, Riya Bisht wrote:
>  Hello, 
Hi Riya,

>  I'm interested to package and maintain nim-lang. I've never
> used nim before but
>  i would like to start packaging for fedora. I can learn nim in the process.
>  Could you please help me to get started with this? 
That's great to hear!

The starting point for package maintainers is here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Pack...

Language stacks can be complex to build and package, and can also be
quite a bit of work to maintain. So, if you don't have any packaging
experience, I'd perhaps work on a few other packages to gain a good
understanding of the packaging pipeline before taking this on.

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
Time zone: Europe/London

[Ben Beasley]

This is just a note that nim was packaged in Fedora at one point[1], but was orphaned and
eventually retired. There is a process[2] for reviving such a package; it will be similar
to the process for adding a new package.

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nim

[2]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retireme...

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023, at 7:53 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 17:11:06 +0530, Riya Bisht wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> Hi Riya,
>
>> I'm interested to package and maintain nim-lang. I've never used nim
before but
>> i would like to start packaging for fedora. I can learn nim in the process.
>> Could you please help me to get started with this?
>
> That's great to hear!
>
> The starting point for package maintainers is here:
>
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Pack...
>
> Language stacks can be complex to build and package, and can also be
> quite a bit of work to maintain. So, if you don't have any packaging
> experience, I'd perhaps work on a few other packages to gain a good
> understanding of the packaging pipeline before taking this on.
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
> Time zone: Europe/London
>
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[Felix Wang]

I also would like to get involved into the packaging of nim-lang. Although I maintain a
few Fedora packages, my understanding of fedora rpm packaging and many other related
knowledge, which I know a little about nim-lang,  may not statisfy the packaging of
nim-lang, but I will have a try.