* try as much as possible to build test artifacts under a single dir …

…(can be improved later)

* simplify gitignore logic

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# ignore files wo extension (posix binaries)
+*
+!*.*
+!*/
+
+
 # Any path
 *.swp
 *~
@@ -7,15 +13,6 @@ nimcache/
 /src/babel
 /src/nimble
 
-# executables from test and build
-/nimble
-src/nimblepkg/cli
-src/nimblepkg/packageinfo
-src/nimblepkg/packageparser
-src/nimblepkg/reversedeps
-src/nimblepkg/version
-src/nimblepkg/download
-
 # Windows executables
 *.exe
 *.dll
@@ -31,4 +28,13 @@ src/nimblepkg/download
 *.orig
 
 # Test procedure artifacts
-nimble_*.nims
+/buildTests
+
+# executables from test and build (already gitignored but keeping for documentation)
+# /nimble
+# src/nimblepkg/cli
+# src/nimblepkg/packageinfo
+# src/nimblepkg/packageparser
+# src/nimblepkg/reversedeps
+# src/nimblepkg/version
+# src/nimblepkg/download

tests/.gitignore

@@ -1,23 +1,10 @@
-tester
+# ideally this shouldn't even be needed and all generated files would go under ../buildTests/
+
+# tester
 /nimble-test
-/buildDir
-/binaryPackage/v1/binaryPackage
-/binaryPackage/v2/binaryPackage
-/develop/dependent/src/dependent
-/issue27/issue27
-/issue206/issue/issue206bin
-/issue289/issue289
-/issue428/nimbleDir/
-/nimbleDir/
-/packageStructure/c/c
-/packageStructure/y/y
-/testCommand/testOverride/myTester
-/testCommand/testsFail/tests/a
-/testCommand/testsFail/tests/b
-/testCommand/testsPass/tests/one
-/testCommand/testsPass/tests/three
-/testCommand/testsPass/tests/two
-/nimscript/nimscript
-/packageStructure/validBinary/y
-/testCommand/testsFail/tests/t2
-/passNimFlags/passNimFlags
+
+# occurs on multiple levels
+nimbleDir/
+
+# generated nims files
+*_*.nims

tests/config.nims

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# this also doesn't work (even in nims): --outdir:"$nimcache/buildTests"
+import os
+let buildDir = currentSourcePath().parentDir.parentDir / "buildTests"
+switch("outdir", buildDir)