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Following is the RFC for providing project local dependencies in Nimble. This is being tracked in issue 131 and discussed in the Nim forum.

Definitions:

• local deps mode - this RFC to enable project local dependencies where $prj/nimbledeps is used by Nimble on a per project basis
• user deps mode - current Nimble behavior of using ~/.nimble since dependencies are usable across projects for a specific user
• global deps mode - tracked in issue 80 where a system-wide folder can be used to store dependencies across users and projects. It is not covered in this RFC.

Motivations:

• The main value of local deps mode is to provide dependency isolation from other projects. Isolation simply makes development easier and avoids any conflicts caused by mixing dependencies across projects.
• local deps mode is simply a mode of operation during development and is not e