Update for 1.6 issue #23956

[Zectbumo]

OpenBSD is still on Nim 1.x so the fix for #23956 should be in there too

[Araq]

Ping @narimiran

[narimiran]

version-1-6 is dead, baby. version-1-6 is dead.

[Zectbumo]

I'm not sure about dead quite yet. OpenBSD 7.7 was just released yesterday and the only Nim package provided is 1.6.18. I tried compiling Nim 2.2.4 from source on amd64 OpenBSD 7.7 and I ran into minor compilation issues where openbsd wasn't mentioned in a when-case and koch tools failed when compiling nimble because it used posix_fallocate but I was successful after making some minor patches so this made me hopeful to see 2.2 available for a package in the next 7.8 release.

I ran testament all and got, what I think is, a decent score: FAILURE! total: 517 passed: 501 skipped: 12 failed: 4

[narimiran]

the only Nim package provided is 1.6.18

This means they not using even the latest released 1.6 version — 1.6.20.

If we merge this (and before that, we need to update our CIs in the version-1-6 branch, and who knows what more), why do you think they'll switch to some random unreleased commit? (There are no plans of another 1.6.x release.)

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I tried compiling Nim 2.2.4 from source on amd64 OpenBSD 7.7 and I ran into minor compilation issues

1. Is Nim 2.0.16 any better?
2. Can you report/fix those issues in devel, and we can then backport them to version-2-2?

[Zectbumo]

This means they not using even the latest released 1.6 version — 1.6.20.

Right, I'll request for that to be updated. It was 1.6.18 for the last OpenBSD release too.

There are no plans of another 1.6.x release.

Understood. Not a problem to skip this merge. I can submit a patch to the OpenBSD package that can add it to 1.6.20. There are already four patches as it is:
build.sh
config/nim.cfg
dist/nimble/src/nimblepkg/options.nim
lib/pure/asyncnet.nim

1. Is Nim 2.0.16 any better?

Nim 2.0.16 took the exact same patches to allow compiling of tools and got testament all result of:
FAILURE! total: 101 passed: 36 skipped: 0 failed: 65

2. Can you report/fix those issues in devel, and we can then backport them to version-2-2?

Yes. issue #24922 and pull #24923
and nimble pull request already being merged.

[Zectbumo]

try later, if needed, if you get 500 error from the cvsweb openbsd server. they must be getting slammed from the new release
or use github mirror https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/lang/nim/patches