Read version from nimble file

[daniel-j]

To avoid having to update futhark.nim when version changes. Uses nimble dump.

[PMunch]

I tried systems like this, but they ended up failing when I did nimble upgrade. I think that was using a slightly different system though where both the nimble file and futhark.nim file would import a version.nim file and grab the version from there, so this approach might work. You could also use nimbleutils to simplify the call a bit.

[PMunch]

Can this be made to use https://github.com/PMunch/nimbleutils instead? That way any special cases for Nimble handling can just live in that repo

[daniel-j]

I think nimbleutils needs some tweaking, all the fields of NimblePkg are hidden for example. And the nimbleDump command doesn't use quoteShell. Why isn't it parsing the json output of nimble dump?

[PMunch]

Oh indeed, I just pushed a new version which fixes these problems. The reason why it isn't parsing the JSON output of Nimble dump is mostly because I didn't know it existed when I wrote that package. But the result is the same anyways so it doesn't matter terribly much, if anything this might even be a bit quicker since it's parsing it directly into the object and not into an intermediary format.

[daniel-j]

Updated to use latest nimbleutils version