atlas cmd writes nim.cfg to wrong destination: cannot open: balls/nim.cfg [IOError]

[timotheecour]

Example

cd $dir
git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim
cd Nim
sh build_all.sh
bin/nim c -r tools/atlas/atlas.nim clone https://github.com/disruptek/balls

Current Output

[Warning] (nim-bytes2human) package has no tagged releases

/private/tmp/d04/foo2/Nim/tools/atlas/atlas.nim(473) atlas
/private/tmp/d04/foo2/Nim/tools/atlas/atlas.nim(456) main
/private/tmp/d04/foo2/Nim/tools/atlas/atlas.nim(396) patchNimCfg
/private/tmp/d04/foo2/Nim/lib/system/io.nim(866) writeFile
Error: unhandled exception: cannot open: balls/nim.cfg [IOError]
Error: execution of an external program failed: '/private/tmp/d04/foo2/Nim/tools/atlas/atlas clone https://github.com/disruptek/balls'

Expected Output

should write to $nim/config/nim.cfg, not $nim/balls/nim.cfg,

Example 2

bin/nim c -r tools/atlas/atlas.nim clone cligen
Error: unhandled exception: cannot open: cligen/nim.cfg [IOError]

Additional Information

1.5.1 98f7254

[Araq]

It should really write to $nim/balls/nim.cfg, as documented.

[timotheecour]

since you've closed this issue, I have to assume that crashing with cannot open: balls/nim.cfg is the expected behavior

(that command came from koch.nim:602:19: execFold("Run atlas tests", "nim c -r -d:atlasTests tools/atlas/atlas.nim clone https://github.com/disruptek/balls") adapted by removing -d:atlasTests which is test-only)

[Araq]

I don't know why it could not write into this directory, but it should write into $nim/balls/nim.cfg, as documented.

[timotheecour]

I don't know why it could not write into this directory

because it creates $nim/../balls ...