How 'bout something like Ruby Gems? Having to svn and build the clojure-contrib sources is a hassle for some of us.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stu Hood <stuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree. I think the "breaking into modules" approach is the only scalable > solution. > > Someone else mentioned that clojure-contrib is/shouldbe an incubating area > for core, which seems reasonable. There should be a little more pushback > when a project wants to make it into contrib, and it should already be > organized such that its dependencies would be well known if it wanted to > make it out of 'incubation' and into core. > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> I'd say to refactor clojure-contrib into a number of seperate modules; >> individual modules (each with its own pom) could have their own >> dependencies. Thus if you choose clojure-contrib-freechart, you get >> that JAR (or compiled Clojure sources) plus the jfreechart dependency. >> >> In this way you are using the good part of Maven: transitive >> dependency management. >> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I've been thinking recently about contribs with dependencies. >> > >> > I think it's very important to have layers - e.g. core depends only on >> > JDK 1.5, contrib only on core. Lately there have been some ideas >> > centering around Joda Time, [Parallel]Colt, AWS, JFreeChart, Fork/Join >> > etc. >> > >> > I'd like to start a discussion about how best to support the >> > contributions of libraries that depend on things not in the JDK. >> > >> > Obviously, without care and rules it could get crazy quickly, and I >> > want to avoid the kitchen-sink effect. It is very important that >> > things remain [truly, not just apparently] simple. >> > >> > Looking for suggestions, >> > >> > Rich >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Howard M. Lewis Ship >> >> Creator of Apache Tapestry >> Director of Open Source Technology at Formos >> >> >> > > > > -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
