On Apr 8, 12:45 pm, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I have 10 Clojure projects I'm going to have 10 src/clojure.jar > files. Do they really need to be there or could I just use the clojure > that comes with my operating system (Debian)? > > When I hack Common Lisp I don't copy sbcl into all my projects, I just > install it once globally. I'd like to do the same with clojure.
Although I'm with you about ELPA and preferring the traditional way to install Emacs packages, I disagree on this point. I find it counterproductive to think of Clojure and its distribution in the same terms as Common Lisp's. It's easier to think of Clojure apps more like Java apps which happen to use a much better language. I actually prefer to have a lib/clojure-X.Y.Z.jar in my project. This guarantees that, as long as the deployment machine has a Clojure- supporting JVM, the app has no other system-level dependencies. It also allows flexibility with trying out unreleased and unpackaged versions of Clojure. This eliminates the hideous mess in most distributions of having packages like python24, python25, python26, python30 (and resulting things like python24-somelib and python26- somelib). -- 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
