`meta_package_manager.managers.nimble` module¶

class meta_package_manager.managers.nimble.Nimble[source]¶

Bases: PackageManager

Nimble, the package manager of the Nim language.

A package is a Nim library or binary, identified by the bare name the registry publishes it under.

Initialize cli_errors list.

operation_notes: ClassVar = {'installed': 'Nimble keeps several versions of a package side by side; the listing reports the newest per name.', 'outdated': 'No command reports which installed packages have newer releases.', 'upgrade': "The tool's `upgrade` acts on a project's lock file, not the machine, and a reinstall adds the newest version beside the old one."}¶

Per-operation hints rendered in the Notes column of the manager page’s Operations table.

Keyed by the Operations member name, each value is a single short sentence explaining why the manager lacks the operation, or what makes its implementation partial: the pointer a reader needs to judge whether the gap is one they could help close. Each sentence starts with a capital and closes with a period, and starts on a word rather than a code span, so the cell reads standalone beside its row. A blank cell stays silent: a manager documenting nothing documents no gap.

The full rationale never lives here: it belongs in a comment beside the implementing method (or beside this declaration, for an operation with no method to hang it on), so the sentence on the page stays a hint and the code keeps the story. The class docstring follows the same split: it keeps only what a user needs to run the tool day to day, never how mpm wraps it.

Validated by test_operation_notes, which also checks every key matches a real operation: a key outside the enum’s vocabulary would never reach a page.

name: str = 'Nimble'¶

Return package manager’s common name.

Default value is based on class name.

documentation_url: str | None = 'https://nim-lang.github.io/nimble/index.html'¶

Entry point of the project’s own documentation, or None when it has none.

The manual, the documentation site, or the man page of the CLI mpm drives: whichever page a user reads to learn the commands this manager wraps. Listed between homepage_url and repository_url in the links of the manager’s page, so a reader reaching for the tool’s reference finds it in the box of facts rather than in the prose below it.

Left unset where a link would state a fact twice or invent one: a tool documenting itself in its repository alone, whose README repository_url already reaches. A page about the ecosystem rather than the tool does not qualify either.

Where a project’s only site is its manual, that address belongs here and homepage_url stays unset: the slot names what the page is, and a reader reaching for the reference looks under the documentation link.

Never inherited, like every other link: the AUR helpers extending pacman each document themselves.

repository_url: str | None = 'https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble'¶

Repository holding the project’s code, or None when it has no public one.

Linked from the manager’s documentation page. Also what the weekly metrics sample reads: docs/docs_update.py writes it into the [tool.repomatic.metrics] subjects of pyproject.toml when its forge answers the sampler, through a mirror for a forge that does not.

Never inherited, for the same reason as wikipedia_url: the AUR helpers extending pacman each live in a repository of their own.

platforms: frozenset[Platform] | Group | Platform | Iterable[Platform | Group] = frozenset({Platform(id='aix', name='IBM AIX'), Platform(id='almalinux', name='AlmaLinux'), Platform(id='alpine', name='Alpine Linux'), Platform(id='altlinux', name='ALT Linux'), Platform(id='amzn', name='Amazon Linux'), Platform(id='android', name='Android'), Platform(id='arch', name='Arch Linux'), Platform(id='buildroot', name='Buildroot'), Platform(id='cachyos', name='CachyOS'), Platform(id='centos', name='CentOS'), Platform(id='chromeos', name='ChromeOS'), Platform(id='clearlinux', name='Clear Linux OS'), Platform(id='cloudlinux', name='CloudLinux OS'), Platform(id='crux', name='CRUX'), Platform(id='cygwin', name='Cygwin'), Platform(id='debian', name='Debian'), Platform(id='dragonfly_bsd', name='DragonFly BSD'), Platform(id='endeavouros', name='EndeavourOS'), Platform(id='exherbo', name='Exherbo Linux'), Platform(id='fedora', name='Fedora'), Platform(id='freebsd', name='FreeBSD'), Platform(id='generic_linux', name='Generic Linux'), Platform(id='gentoo', name='Gentoo Linux'), Platform(id='guix', name='Guix System'), Platform(id='haiku', name='Haiku'), Platform(id='hurd', name='GNU/Hurd'), Platform(id='ibm_powerkvm', name='IBM PowerKVM'), Platform(id='illumos', name='illumos'), Platform(id='kali', name='Kali Linux'), Platform(id='kvmibm', name='KVM for IBM z Systems'), Platform(id='linuxmint', name='Linux Mint'), Platform(id='macos', name='macOS'), Platform(id='mageia', name='Mageia'), Platform(id='mandriva', name='Mandriva Linux'), Platform(id='manjaro', name='Manjaro Linux'), Platform(id='midnightbsd', name='MidnightBSD'), Platform(id='netbsd', name='NetBSD'), Platform(id='nixos', name='NixOS'), Platform(id='nobara', name='Nobara'), Platform(id='nutyx', name='NuTyX'), Platform(id='openbsd', name='OpenBSD'), Platform(id='opensuse', name='openSUSE'), Platform(id='openwrt', name='OpenWrt'), Platform(id='oracle', name='Oracle Linux'), Platform(id='os400', name='IBM i'), Platform(id='parallels', name='Parallels'), Platform(id='pidora', name='Pidora'), Platform(id='pikaos', name='PikaOS'), Platform(id='raspbian', name='Raspbian'), Platform(id='rhel', name='RedHat Enterprise Linux'), Platform(id='rocky', name='Rocky Linux'), Platform(id='scientific', name='Scientific Linux'), Platform(id='slackware', name='Slackware'), Platform(id='sles', name='SUSE Linux Enterprise Server'), Platform(id='slitaz', name='SliTaz GNU/Linux'), Platform(id='solaris', name='Solaris'), Platform(id='solus', name='Solus'), Platform(id='sourcemage', name='Source Mage GNU/Linux'), Platform(id='sunos', name='SunOS'), Platform(id='tuxedo', name='Tuxedo OS'), Platform(id='ubuntu', name='Ubuntu'), Platform(id='ultramarine', name='Ultramarine'), Platform(id='void', name='Void Linux'), Platform(id='windows', name='Windows'), Platform(id='wsl1', name='Windows Subsystem for Linux v1'), Platform(id='wsl2', name='Windows Subsystem for Linux v2'), Platform(id='xenserver', name='XenServer')})¶

List of platforms supported by the manager.

Allows for a mishmash of platforms and groups of platforms. Will be normalized into a frozenset of Platform instances at instantiation.

requirement: str | None = '>=0.22.0'¶: First release carrying the fix that makes list --installed --ver print versions: nim-lang/nimble#1469 was closed on 2025-09-18, between v0.20.1 and v0.22.0.

pre_args: tuple[str, ...] = ('--noColor', '--accept')¶

Strip styling so the parsers see plain text, and pre-answer the prompts.

--accept is not cosmetic: uninstall asks “Do you wish to continue?” and blocks forever without it.

version_regexes: tuple[str, ...] = ('nimble[ \\t]+v(?P<version>\\S+)',)¶

Search the version right after the nimble v string.

$ nimble --version
nimble v0.22.2 compiled at 2026-04-24 03:34:24
git hash: couldn't determine git hash

cli_names: tuple[str, ...] = ('nimble',)¶

List of CLI names the package manager is known as.

This list of recognized CLI names is ordered by priority. That way we can influence the search of the right binary.

..hint::: This was helpful in the case of the Python transition from 2.x to 3.x, where multiple versions of the same executable were named python or python3.

By default, this property’s value is derived from the manager’s ID (see the MetaPackageManager.__init__ method above).

homepage_url: str | None = None¶

Home page of the project, only used in documentation for reference.

Left unset when the home page is the project’s repository, which repository_url names on its own, and when it is the project’s manual, which documentation_url names. Never inherited, like the other links.

id: str = 'nimble'¶

Package manager’s ID.

Derived by defaults from the lower-cased class name in which underscores _ are replaced by dashes -.

This ID must be unique among all package manager definitions and lower-case, as they’re used as feature flags for the mpm CLI.

virtual: bool = False¶

Should we expose the package manager to the user?

Virtual package manager are just skeleton classes used to factorize code among managers of the same family.

wikipedia_url: str | None = None¶

English Wikipedia article about the project, or None when it has none.

Listed last in the links of the manager’s documentation page. The article covers the project that home page names, or is a redirect Wikipedia keeps under the project’s name, landing on the part of a broader article that describes it: Cargo_(software) opens the Cargo section of the Rust article. An article that merely mentions the project does not count, nor does one about a related subject: lazy is a Neovim plugin manager, and the Neovim article is not about it.

Never inherited: the metaclass resets it to None on any class not declaring its own. A subclass often wraps a distinct project, like the six AUR helpers extending pacman, and would otherwise present pacman’s article as its own. Documentation-only, like homepage_url.

property installed: Iterator[Package]¶

Fetch installed packages.

$ nimble --noColor --accept list --installed --ver
Package list format:
{PackageName}
└── @{Version} ({CheckSum})[Special Versions (if any)] ({InstallPath})
parsetoml
├── @0.7.2 (2a9fb57ef1f6460fd61b1cfab2d83af44f788a25) (/Users/kde/.nimble/pkgs2/parsetoml-0.7.2-2a9fb57ef1f6460fd61b1cfab2d83af44f788a25)
└── @0.7.1 (586fe63467a674008c4445ed1b8ac882177d7103) (/Users/kde/.nimble/pkgs2/parsetoml-0.7.1-586fe63467a674008c4445ed1b8ac882177d7103)

search(query, extended, exact)[source]¶

Fetch matching packages.

Caution

Search does not support extended or exact matching, and reports no version: Nimble’s records carry a URL, tags, a description, a license and a website, but nothing identifying a release.

$ nimble --noColor --accept search parsetoml
parsetoml:
  url:         https://github.com/NimParsers/parsetoml.git (git)
  tags:        library, parse
  description: Library for parsing TOML files.
  license:     MIT
  website:     https://github.com/NimParsers/parsetoml

Return type:: Iterator[Package]

install(package_id, version=None)[source]¶

Install one package.

$ nimble --noColor --accept install checksums
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/checksums using git
      Info: using /opt/homebrew/Cellar/nim/2.2.10/nim/bin/nim for compilation

Return type:: str

remove(package_id)[source]¶

Remove one package.

$ nimble --noColor --accept uninstall checksums
    Looking for checksums (any version)
   Checking reverse dependencies
    Prompt: The following packages will be removed:
        ... checksums-0.2.2-6357ab195ec23e0e0a54d4d8b5e0212456bf899e
        ... Do you wish to continue? -> [forced yes]
    Removed checksums-0.2.2-6357ab195ec23e0e0a54d4d8b5e0212456bf899e

Return type:: str

sync()[source]¶

Sync package metadata.

$ nimble --noColor --accept refresh
Downloading Official package list
    Success Package list downloaded.

Return type:: None

meta_package_manager.managers.nimble module¶

`meta_package_manager.managers.nimble` module¶