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New Specification
This new specification is a proposal and is subject to change. It will most likely be implemented in the near future however.
The goal is simple: to provide a simple tool which allows installation of packages (and their dependencies).
Dependencies will be defined in the .babel file as a list of package names, for example: mongodb, redis, irc. Version information will not be included. This means that babel will simply download the latest version of the package specified, this will make dependency resolution much simpler.
A package's source code will be copied into ~/.babel/lib/package/x.x.x, while the .babel files will be copied into ~/.babel/packages.
A library will usually not be compiled, so this only applies to applications wishing to be built which depend on babel packages. These applications will be required to have a .babel file obviously.
The command babel update-conf will cause babel to read in the .babel file of the project and modify (or create) the project's nimrod.cfg file adding a couple of --path instructions which will add the correct modules to the nimrod compiler's search path. You will then be able to run nimrod c mainFile and your project should compile correctly.
A shortcut to this will most likely be provided as babel build or babel compile or babel c. This will be decided later.