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The "examples" subdir vanished in upstreams repo.

The nim binary package builds some extra tools and includes nimpretty and nimsuggest, while nim-git doesn't.

nim-git /usr/bin/nim nim-git /usr/bin/nimgrep

nimpretty-git /usr/bin/nimpretty

nimsuggest-git /usr/bin/nimsuggest

nim usr/bin/nim nim usr/bin/nim-gdb nim usr/bin/nim-gdb.bash nim usr/bin/nim-gdb.bat nim usr/bin/nimfind nim usr/bin/nimgrep nim usr/bin/nimpretty nim usr/bin/nimsuggest nim usr/bin/testament

nim binary package PKGBUILD: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/nim/repos/community-x86_64/PKGBUILD

Better pkgver function:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6624742..3702f6b 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pkgbase='nim-git'
 pkgname=('nim-git' 'nimble-git' 'nimsuggest-git' 'nimpretty-git')
 pkgdesc='Nim is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language with a design that focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).'
 epoch=1
-pkgver=0.19.4.r1821.d24585c49
+pkgver=1.4.0b4438.9c86f4867
 pkgrel=1
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 groups=('nim')
@@ -22,14 +22,15 @@ source=(
   'git+https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble'
   'makepkg-conf.patch'
 )
-sha256sums=(
-  'SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP'
-  '9d73290e81a2e2a79f7bb8058d47854d90ba9301dda1bee107294e2d82f631bf'
-)
+sha256sums=('SKIP'
+            'SKIP'
+            'SKIP'
+            'SKIP'
+            '9d73290e81a2e2a79f7bb8058d47854d90ba9301dda1bee107294e2d82f631bf')

 _tag() {
   # Describes the most recent tag
-  git describe --abbrev=0 origin/master
+  head -1 changelog.md | cut -c3-8
 }

 _revision() {
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ pkgver() {
   cd Nim

   # Suggestions for improvement welcome!
-  printf '%s.r%s.%s'         \
+  printf '%sb%s.%s'         \
     "$(_tag | sed 's/v//g')" \
     "$(_revision)"           \
     "$(_commit)"

edit pkgbuild, please -_-

Please add '--abbrev=0' to _tag() in order to fix pkgver() issue.

official nim from testing is broken too...

Cloning into 'nimble'...
done.
==> Starting prepare()...
patching file ./csources/build.sh
Hunk #1 succeeded at 40 with fuzz 3.
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> ERROR: pkgver is not allowed to contain colons, forward slashes, hyphens or whitespace.
==> ERROR: pkgver() generated an invalid version: 0.19.4-2-g7f3b686b8.r1787.c94ab4692
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build nim-git.
==> Restart building nimble-git ? [y/N]

@tejasjadhav

Please read the following documentation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_package_guidelines#Guidelines

EDIT:

Nevermind... There are some discrepancies between master and devel that are preventing pkgver from picking up the tags correctly. I'll update pkgver() to accommodate for this.

Apologies for my initial hostility, I got a bit defensive since *-git packages often get wrongly flagged as out-of-date.

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@haawda This will be fixed in pkgrel=2, as it relates to @ferion's comment.

Should have it pushed in the next 15 minutes or so!

Edit: Fixed! The next error:

install.nim(2, 20) Error: undeclared identifier: 'SystemError'
make: *** [Makefile:117: lib/tools] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
utils.nim(222, 26) Error: undeclared identifier: 'SystemError'
make: *** [Makefile:123: src/pakku] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Is related to: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/6e83746caabca00ab2b97a81bd732de4588996fe/changelog.md

The exception hierarchy was slightly reworked, SystemError was renamed to CatchableError and is the new base class for any exception that is guaranteed to be catchable. This change should have minimal impact on most existing Nim code.

Compiling pakku-git with nim-git fails with

==> Making package: pakku-git 0.13r6.gb7666cb-1 (Sat Sep 22 11:13:01 2018)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating pakku git repo...
Fetching origin
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    pakku ... Skipped
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of pakku git repo...
Switched to a new branch 'makepkg'
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
NIM: lib/tools
tools.nim(1, 8) Error: cannot open file: os
make: *** [Makefile:117: lib/tools] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

The same works fine with the stable nim.