Implement async download based on chronos

- implementation of async download based on chronos asyncproc
- the PR is based on nim-lang#938

Author: bobeff

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Mercurial on macOS
         if: matrix.os == 'macos-latest'
         run: brew install mercurial
+      - name: setup submodules
+        run: |
+          git submodule update --init
       - name: Run nim c -r tester
         run: |
           cd tests

.gitignore

@@ -62,3 +62,6 @@ src/nimblepkg/version
 # Test procedure artifacts
 *.nims
 /buildTests
+/nimble.develop
+nimble.paths
+*.paths

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[submodule "nim-bearssl"]
+	path = nim-bearssl
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-bearssl
+[submodule "nim-chronos"]
+	path = nim-chronos
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos
+[submodule "nim-stew"]
+	path = nim-stew
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-stew

changelog.markdown

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ This is a major release containing four new features:
 - Download tarballs when downloading packages from GitHub.
 - A setup command.
 - Added a `--package, -p` command line option.
+- Parallel downloads of the locked dependencies.
 
 ## 0.13.0
 

nim-bearssl

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ installExt = @["nim"]
 
 # Dependencies
 
-requires "nim >= 0.13.0"
+requires "nim >= 0.13.0", "chronos", "bearssl", "stew"
+
 
 when defined(nimdistros):
   import distros
@@ -22,4 +23,4 @@ when defined(nimdistros):
 
 task test, "Run the Nimble tester!":
   withDir "tests":
-    exec "nim c -r tester"
+    exec "nim c -r -d:release tester"

nim-chronos

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 --path:"$lib/packages/docutils"
 #--noNimblePath
+--threads:off
 --path:"$nim/"
 --path:"./vendor/nim"
+--path:"../nim-stew"
+--path:"../nim-chronos"
+--path:"../nim-bearssl"
 -d:ssl
 -d:nimcore # Enable 'gorge' in Nim's VM. See https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/8096