Thanks Araq.
$home isn't oddly isn't defined my zsh shell:
echo "*${home}*"
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I tried try creating a nim.cfg in my home (/Users/DM) directory with
nimblepath="/Users/DM/.nimble/pkgs2/"
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( _BTW there wasn 't already one_)
and it made no difference.
I also did likewise in the repository directory (/Users/DM/work/trunk/nim)
I also interated on on both **/pkgs** and **/pkgs2** for **nimblepath** with no
change :-(
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Just to clarify, I supplied a little more detail hoping it might shed some
light on this particular anomaly.
## Working repository tree:
pwd
/Users/DM/work/trunk/nim
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There are no overriding _nim.cfg_., nimble* or nimbledep*
ls -la nim*.cfg
zsh: no matches found: *.cfg
ls -ls nimble*.*
zsh: no matches found: nimble*.*
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## Nimble Tree:
tree --charset ascii -L 1 ~/.nimble
/Users/DM/.nimble
\|-- bin
\|-- nimbledata2.json
\|-- pkgs
\\`-- pkgs2
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Current contents of pkgs: (historically installed by Nim 1.6.x and earlier
versions nimble);
/Users/DM/.nimble/pkgs
\|-- ansiparse-0.2.0
\|-- argparse-3.0.0
\|-- at-0.1.0
\|-- balls-3.3.7
\|-- base-3.5.1
\|-- bearssl-0.1.5
\|-- benchy-0.0.1
\.\.\.
\|-- with-0.4.0
\|-- ws-0.5.0
\|-- yaml-1.1.0
\|-- zippy-0.10.10
\`-- zstd-0.6.0
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The above **pkgs2** subdirectory is **empty**
ls .nimble/pkgs2
<< No files/directories listed>>
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## Findings:
The previously installed modules are accessible via Nim's import.
inim
INim 0.6.1
Nim Compiler Version 2.0.0 [MacOSX: amd64] at /usr/local/bin/nim
nim> import argparse
nim> import benchy
nim> exit
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So far... so good.... **but Nimble itself doesn 't seem to know about the
previously installed packages!!!**
nimble list -i
<< doesn't list anything>>
nimble path argparse
nimble.nim(912) listPaths
Error: At least one of the specified packages was not found
nimble path benchy
nimble.nim(912) listPaths
Error: At least one of the specified packages was not found
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If I use nimble to install a new module:
cd ~
nimble install db_connector
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/db_connector using git
Warning: The package has no tagged releases, downloading HEAD instead.
Verifying dependencies for [email protected]
Installing [email protected]
Success: db_connector installed successfully.
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Nimble globally knows about it :-)
nimble list -i
db_connector [(version: 0.1.0, checksum:
05c335ec678614b973d8a80651971e0719045d14)]
cd ~/work/trunk/nim
nimble list -i
db_connector [(version: 0.1.0, checksum:
05c335ec678614b973d8a80651971e0719045d14)]
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And so does Nim :-)
inim
INim 0.6.1
Nim Compiler Version 2.0.0 [MacOSX: amd64] at /usr/local/bin/nim
nim> import db_connector/db_sqlite
nim> exit
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**My question is now:**
How to I get Nimble to recognize the existence of previously installed **pkgs**
as well as the newly install **pkgs2**.
I naively tried copying the contents of pkgs into pkgs2 but no joy.
nimble list -i
Tip: 1 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
tables.nim(235) raiseKeyError
Error: key not found: metaData
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Thanks to all who are helping me with this... hopefully we can get to the
bottom it.
