On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm beginning to do more work in Clojure (just a side project for now, > but an interesting one). > > A couple of things I'm missing from Clojure in terms of building & > deploying an application is built-in Ant tasks for common actions: > - Pre-compiling Clojure > - Starting up a REPL (and perhaps passing a form to evaluate) > - Generating XML/HTML documentation > > Two of these things are possible using clumsy Ant operation. Creating > a proper Ant task for them is not much work and would make it easier > and more consistent for Clojure library builders. > > I've seen that the documentation for clojure-contrib if generated > automatically; perhaps some of that logic could move into > clojure-lang? > > Of course, this could all be done as part of clojure-contrib, and > virtually any real project will use some of clojure-contrib but it > still feels more "complete" to have it build into clojure-lang. Flip > side: a fourth task for running tests should be in clojure-contrib (or > test-is should move to clojure-lang). > > So do others feel the same need for these things as I do? And do they > belong in clojure-lang or clojiure-contrib?
I would appreciate having Ant tasks to do all of those things. I don't feel strongly about whether they belong in core or contrib. -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
