I'll have to agree with Brain here. As of now, all I need is Leiningen. It does what I want. Lein is a new project, and I'm fairly certain that it will be much more useful in the future.
I don't think I've ever seen a language in which part of the community shunned build tools written in the language itself. It's quite hilarious. On Mar 25, 5:17 pm, Brian Carper <briancar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 25, 11:55 am, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote: > > > I published a blog post earlier today, along with a short screencast > > that might be of interest: > > > "Like any group of super-smart programmers using a relatively new > > language, a lot of folks in the Clojure community have looked at > > existing build tools (the JVM space is the relevant one here, meaning > > primarily Maven and Ant, although someone will bark if I don't mention > > Gradle, too), and felt a rush of disdain. I'd speculate that this came > > mostly because of XML allergies, but perhaps also in part because when > > one has a hammer as glorious as Clojure, it's hard to not want to use > > it to beat away at every problem in sight." > > Ruby: gem install X > Perl: perl -MCPAN -e shell, then "install X" > > Why does building and installing dependencies have to be harder than > this? Lein right now tries to fill this niche of being braindead easy > to use, and comes pretty close. I realize Maven does a lot more than > build and install dependencies, but for some of us, that's all we want > out of life, and it's pretty nice when it's that easy to do so. > > My dream tool would be: > > 1) Platform-agnostic (for us sorry souls stuck on Windows at work) > 2) IDE-agnostic ("make a Netbeans project" is great, but Emacs users > need some love too) > 3) Easy to understand and use for the kinds of tasks Lein covers (I > don't want to have to study a Maven book(!) if I can avoid it) > 4) Able to handle most or all Clojure and Java libraries I want to > install (I don't want to have to circumvent the build tool and do > things manually if I can help it) > 5) Able to easily "browse" or search for packages in remote > repositories, would be nice > > Rubygems and Perl's CPAN can handle those kinds of things, for > example. If Maven can be those things, I'll have an XML sandwich for > lunch with a smile if necessary. : ) Maybe it can and the community > just needs to standardize around Maven and provide good documentation > and community support for using it with Clojure. I just hope the > community standardizes around something; any standard is better than > everyone using a different tool. > > Thanks > --Brian -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.