Babel

Babel is a work in progress package manager for Nimrod.

Compiling babel

You will need the latest Nimrod compiler from github to compile babel.

Compiling it is as simple as nimrod c babel.

Babel's folder structure

Babel stores everything that has been installed in ~/.babel on Unix systems and in your $home/.babel on Windows. Libraries are stored in $babelDir/libs.

Libraries

Libraries may contain a ProjectName.nim file, this file will be copied to ~/.babel/libs/ProjectName.nim allowing anyone to import it with import ProjectName, it is recommended to include such a file, however it's not a requirement.

All modules should be placed in a ProjectName/ folder. The reason for this is that the main project file can then import the modules that it needs with confidence that the filename of those modules will not change after installation.

All private modules should be placed, by convention, in a private folder inside the ProjectName/ folder, these are modules which the user of your library should not be importing. All files and folders in ProjectName/ will be copied as-is, you can however specify to skip some directories or files in your .babel file.

Example .babel file

; Example babel file
[Package]
name          = "ProjectName"
version       = "0.1.0"
author        = "Dominik Picheta"
description   = """Example .babel file."""

[Library]
SkipDirs = "SomeDir" ; ./ProjectName/SomeDir will be skipped.
SkipFiles = "file.txt,file2.txt" ; ./ProjectName/{file.txt, file2.txt} will be skipped.

Submitting your package to the package list.

Babel's packages list is stored on github and everyone is encouraged to add their own packages to it! Take a look at nimrod-code/packages to learn more.

Contribution

If you would like to help, feel free to fork and make any additions you see fit and then send a pull request. If you have any questions about the project you can ask me directly on github, ask on the nimrod forum, or ask on Freenode in the #nimrod channel.