Once Clojure gets a decent CLJDoc-like tool, it would be cool to see
the uploaded code automatically be color-coded, documented, and
cross-referenced on the site.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Paul Stadig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Maven is a bit heavy and obnoxious, but it does do a lot to
>> manage dependencies among versioned libraries, and there's already a
>> lot of tool support for it, already a fairly-well-mirrored repo,
>> already a URL naming convention for libraries that aren't in the main
>> repo, etc.
>
> Right, I didn't want to co-opt Drew's thread with a discussion about
> library management. There may be things that could (should) be
> borrowed from Maven (such as the repo and its conventions), but Maven
> is a build tool, and I'm thinking more about the runtime support that
> a library management system would provide, like dynamically adding
> jars to the classpath when you do (require 'something) and adding a
> specific version when you (require '[something :version 2.3]). Just
> ideas, as I'm sure many others have. Again, I didn't want to get into
> this discussion, just to point out that some kind of future support
> for library management might be useful on the proposed site.
>
>> Now I agree that a central repo is much more valuable to users once
>> there _are_ versioned libraries, and not just a bunch of git repos;
>> but it makes a great deal of sense for early developers (like you,
>> gentle readers) to think now about the eventual library repository
>> scheme.  On the other hand, if I want to use Jetty as an HTTP
>> container, or the MySQL JDBC drivers for database access, or any of a
>> very large number of other Java libraries, we _already_ have versioned
>> releases.
>
> Agreed. I'm not saying that a central repo is necessary, just that it
> is useful especially for newbs, and with a young community I think it
> helps to concentrate interest and collaboration, rather than to have
> it spread thinly. That's why I think the site Drew is proposing would
> be a good idea.
>
>> So shall we think, then, about a standard way to stuff code written in
>> Clojure into jar files? Is there already such a standard around here
>> that I'm ignorant of? If not, the structure of clojure.jar itself (as
>> composed by ant) seems at least to be a good point of reference.
>
> I think there is already a standard way to stuff Clojure code into
> jars (c.f. the clojure-contrib project). Clojure files are just found
> on the classpath, so they can be put directly into JARs.
>
>> --josh
>
> Paul
>
> >
>

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