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What’s the environment management story like?

I try to keep it simple, using Make to build, and so have ran into issues with Nimble. The upcoming Atlas is supposed to fix these issues, but I don't know enough about it yet. But I remember running into conflicting name resolution with Nimble when multiple versions of a package were installed; I believe it was trying to choose betweeen a Nim 1.x package version and a Nim 2.x, which are kept in separate Nimble folders (pkgs and pkgs2).

I'm probably going to sit down and give Atlas a try soon, and migrate my dependencies.

No need to migrate dependency with Atlas. Should "Just Work". If not file a GH issue.

Note, I fixed up Atlas a few months ago for Araq (Nim's BDFL). It uses a simpler design where pkgs are put in a local `deps` folder. It works fantastic and has replaced Nimble and it's magic for me. Plus the local deps folder is easy for LLM cli tools to grep.

Just make sure to install the latest version!

P.S. @netbioserror I'm working on a sensors project. Shoot me an email if you want to talk sensors/iot/nim! Emails on my GH

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