On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Saul Hazledine <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 8, 8:31 pm, John Szakmeister <j...@szakmeister.net> wrote:
>> I've been working on a web app, and it was using leiningen-war.  The
>> author of that suggest moving to the lein-ring plugin on his github
>> site... so, I did that.
>
> Apologies if the wording in the README of leiningen-war has caused any
> problems. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

No worries. :-)

> Leiningen-war remains alive and supported. I'm happy to fix bugs and
> add features when requested - I use the plugin myself and will
> continue to do so. However, people new to Java web development were
> having problems with Leiningen-war since it does everything in the
> Java style with XML config files and an unfamiliar directory
> structure. This approach was obviously a barrier for newcomers using
> Clojure who wanted to create a deployable web application. The lein-
> ring plugin is a much easier plugin to use, it integrates well with
> Ring and it has extra features. It is my hope was that all new users
> start with lein-ring.

That's pretty much what I read.  I happen to be a "newish" user of it,
so I saw the readme and said "oh, I guess I should try lein-ring."  So
I jumped that direction.

> I'll change the README in leiningen-war to make it clearer.

Thanks for the explanation!

-John

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