PCRE dependency disclosure / resolution in package install? (ubuntu)

[gminorcoles]

Hi,
I am a brand new nim user. I installed nim using the instructions on the website, using choosenim via curl. I installed VSCode, because that editor is the one that has a plugin being maintained by the nim team. I installed nimlangserver using nimble. I installed the plugin and nph from inside vscode. I got a lot of errors which seemed to boil down to PCRE not being installed. I guess binary packages which are considered part of the environment are outside of the purview of the nim installer. Or maybe I should have used apt to install some or all of these artifacts? That would have given the maintainers a place to resolve the PCRE dependency as part of the nim installation process.

It would at least be good to be made aware of this ahead of time, if possible.