nim-wiki/Creating-a-release.md

• Run the full testsuite (tests\testament\tester all) and ensure it's green; actually ensure travis is green (Usually the case these days)

• Update news.txt

• write a news ticker entry

• Update the version

  • In system.nim
  • In compiler.nimble
  • In lib/stdlib.nimble

• Recompile koch!

• Generate the full docs; koch web0

• Generate the installers

  • koch csource -d:release
  • koch xz
  • koch nsis

• Test the installers: koch testinstall

• Tag the release

• Merge devel into master

• Update csources

To build the Windows release, currently this .bat file is used which is rather tied to my computer.

set NIMVER=0.14.2

Rem Build -docs file:
koch web0
cd web\upload
7z a -tzip docs-%NIMVER%.zip *.html
move /y docs-%NIMVER%.zip download
cd ..\..

Rem Build .zip file:
REm koch csources -d:release
rem koch xz -d:release
rem move /y build\nim-%NIMVER%.zip web\upload\download

ReM Build Win32 version:

set PATH=C:\Users\Anwender\projects\nim\dist\mingw\bin;%PATH%
cd build
call build.bat
cd ..
nim c koch || exit /b
koch boot -d:release || exit /b
cd ..\nimsuggest
nim c -d:release --noNimblePath --path:..\nim  nimsuggest || exit /b
copy /y nimsuggest.exe ..\nim\bin || exit /b
cd ..\nim
koch nsis -d:release || exit /b
move /y build\nim_%NIMVER%.exe web\upload\download\nim-%NIMVER%_x32.exe || exit /b


ReM Build Win64 version:
set PATH=C:\Users\Anwender\projects\win-builds\bin;%PATH%
cd build
call build64.bat
cd ..
nim c koch || exit /b
koch boot -d:release || exit /b
cd ..\nimsuggest
nim c -d:release --noNimblePath --path:..\nim  nimsuggest || exit /b
copy /y nimsuggest.exe ..\nim\bin || exit /b
cd ..\nim
koch nsis -d:release || exit /b
move /y build\nim_%NIMVER%.exe web\upload\download\nim-%NIMVER%_x64.exe || exit /b

Shell script, work in progress:

#!/bin/sh

set -eu

# Test and release a new Nim version

ask() {
    echo "$1 Enter to continue, Ctrl-C to stop"
    read _
}

ask "Ensure that https://travis-ci.org/nim-lang/Nim is green"

ask "Ensure the last build on http://ci.nim-lang.org/ is successful"

orig_dir=$(pwd)
tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
cd $tmp_dir

# Clone repos

#git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/nim.git --depth 1
cp -a /tmp/nim .
cd nim
#git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble.git --depth 1
cp -a /tmp/nimble .
#git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/csources
cp -a /tmp/csources .

# Build Nim

cd csources && sh build.sh
cd ..
bin/nim c koch
./koch boot -d:release

# Run the full testsuite (tests\testament\tester all) and ensure it's green; actually ensure travis is green (Usually the case these days)

# Set version

old_version=$(grep ^version compiler.nimble | cut -d'"' -f2)
nim_major="$1"
nim_minor="$2"
nim_patch="$3"
new_version="$nim_major.$nim_minor.$nim_patch"

ask "Old version is $old_version - new version is $new_version"

# Update the version

sed -i "s/^  NimMajor\*: int = [0-9]*$/  NimMajor*: int = $nim_major/" lib/system.nim
sed -i "s/^  NimMinor\*: int = [0-9]*$/  NimMinor*: int = $nim_minor/" lib/system.nim
sed -i "s/^  NimPatch\*: int = [0-9]*$/  NimPatch*: int = $nim_patch/" lib/system.nim

sed -i "s/version = .*/version = \"$new_version\"/" compiler.nimble
sed -i "s/version       = .*/version       = \"$new_version\"/" lib/stdlib.nimble

git diff | cat -n

ask "Ensure the version was updated in 3 files"

# Update news.txt
# write a news ticker entry

# Generate the full docs

./koch web0

# Generate the installers

./koch csource -d:release
./koch xz -d:release
./koch nsis