slim

A customized Nimble build that adds support for task-level dependencies.

Standard Nimble doesn't handle requires inside task hooks like before test:. slim parses these declarations and installs dependencies before running tasks.

What it does

Given a nimble file like this:

task benchmark, "benchmark":
  requires "jester"
  exec "nim c -r benchmark/benchmark.nim"

before test:
  requires "asynctest >= 0.2.0 & < 0.3.0"

slim extracts the task dependencies (jester, asynctest) so they can be installed automatically before the task runs.

Build

nimble build

Usage

slim is a drop-in replacement for nimble:

slim build
slim test
slim tasks