.builds/freebsd.yml

@@ -1,25 +1,19 @@
 # see https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md#freebsd
 image: freebsd/latest
-
-# packages:
-# - databases/sqlite3
-# - devel/boehm-gc-threaded
-# - devel/pcre
-# - devel/sdl20
-# - devel/sfml
-# - www/node
-# - devel/gmake
-# - devel/git
+packages:
+- databases/sqlite3
+- devel/boehm-gc-threaded
+- devel/pcre
+- devel/sdl20
+- devel/sfml
+- www/node
+- devel/gmake
 sources:
 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim
 environment:
   CC: /usr/bin/clang
 tasks:
 - setup: |
-    # workaround https://github.com/timotheecour/Nim/issues/76
-    sudo pkg update -q -f
-    sudo pkg install -y -q databases/sqlite3 devel/boehm-gc-threaded devel/pcre \
-      devel/sdl20 devel/sfml www/node devel/gmake devel/git
     cd Nim
     git clone --depth 1 -q https://github.com/nim-lang/csources.git
     gmake -C csources -j $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)

.github/workflows/ci.yml.disabled

@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ jobs:
           curl -L https://nim-lang.org/download/dlls.zip -o dist/dlls.zip
           7z x dist/mingw64.7z -odist
           7z x dist/dlls.zip -obin
-          echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin"
+          echo "${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Add build binaries to PATH'
         shell: bash
-        run: echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/bin"
+        run: echo "${{ github.workspace }}/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Build csources'
         shell: bash

.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml

@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ jobs:
           curl -L https://nim-lang.org/download/dlls.zip -o dist/dlls.zip
           7z x dist/mingw64.7z -odist
           7z x dist/dlls.zip -obin
-          echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin"
+          echo "${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Add build binaries to PATH'
         shell: bash
-        run: echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/bin"
+        run: echo "${{ github.workspace }}/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Get current csources version'
         id: csources-version

.github/workflows/ci_packages.yml

@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ jobs:
           curl -L https://nim-lang.org/download/dlls.zip -o dist/dlls.zip
           7z x dist/mingw64.7z -odist
           7z x dist/dlls.zip -obin
-          echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin"
+          echo "${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Add build binaries to PATH'
         shell: bash
-        run: echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/bin"
+        run: echo "${{ github.workspace }}/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Build csources'
         shell: bash

.github/workflows/ci_ssl.yml

@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ jobs:
           curl -L https://nim-lang.org/download/dlls.zip -o dist/dlls.zip
           7z x dist/mingw64.7z -odist
           7z x dist/dlls.zip -obin
-          echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin"
+          echo "${{ github.workspace }}/dist/mingw64/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Add build binaries to PATH'
         shell: bash
-        run: echo "::add-path::${{ github.workspace }}/bin"
+        run: echo "${{ github.workspace }}/bin" >> "${GITHUB_PATH}"
 
       - name: 'Build 1-stage compiler from csources'
         shell: bash

build_all.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
 # build development version of the compiler; can be rerun safely.
-# arguments can be passed, eg `--os freebsd`
+# arguments can be passed, e.g. `--os freebsd`
 
 set -u # error on undefined variables
 set -e # exit on first error
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ build_nim_csources(){
   # avoid changing dir in case of failure
   (
     if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
-      # some args were passed (eg: `--cpu i386`), need to call build.sh
+      # some args were passed (e.g.: `--cpu i386`), need to call build.sh
       build_nim_csources_via_script "$@"
     else
       # no args, use multiple Make jobs (5X faster on 16 cores: 10s instead of 50s)

changelog.md

@@ -4,10 +4,28 @@
 
 ## Standard library additions and changes
 
+- `prelude` now works with the JavaScript target.
+
+- Added `ioutils` module containing `duplicate` and `duplicateTo` to duplicate `FileHandle` using C function `dup` and `dup2`.
+
+- The JSON module can now handle integer literals and floating point literals of arbitrary length and precision.
+  Numbers that do not fit the underlying `BiggestInt` or `BiggestFloat` fields are kept as string literals and
+  one can use external BigNum libraries to handle these. The `parseFloat` family of functions also has now optional
+  `rawIntegers` and `rawFloats` parameters that can be used to enforce that all integer or float literals remain
+  in the "raw" string form so that client code can easily treat small and large numbers uniformly.
+
+- Added `randState` template that exposes the default random number generator. Useful for library authors.
+
+- Added `asyncdispatch.activeDescriptors` that returns the number of currently
+  active async event handles/file descriptors
 
 
 ## Language changes
 
+- `nimscript` now handles `except Exception as e`
+
+- The `cstring` doesn't support `[]=` operator in JS backend.
+
 
 
 ## Compiler changes