On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Arthur Edelstein <arthuredelst...@gmail.com> wrote: > raises the question of what happens to all of the many existing > Clojure 1.2-based libraries in Clojars and on github. Many of these > are very useful, but not necessarily actively maintained. A lot of
Are therein lies the problem: if they are not actively maintained, you're not going to get bug fixes even on Clojure 1.2. This was true of a large number of contrib modules as well and as we can see from http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Where+Did+Clojure.Contrib+Go a lot of the Clojure Contrib 1.2.0 modules are unmaintained and some won't work with Clojure 1.3.0 :( > So my request for Clojure's future development, is that backwards > compatibility not be broken. I don't think that it's reasonable to expect Clojure to be always beholden to unmaintained third party libraries. What I've been doing is approaching the author(s) of a library where I needed Clojure 1.3.0 compatibility and offered to help them update the code so it works on Clojure 1.2.x and 1.3.0. This clearly helps me - and requires surprisingly little time investment - and it also helps every other user of those libraries. If a library truly has no maintainer, relying on it - especially for production code - is a little risky in my opinion. > I love that Clojure is being constantly improved and developed, and I > thank everyone who has been working so hard on it. In my opinion, > though, third-party libraries are as important as the core language. > Clojure 1.3 interoperates with java libraries very well -- so why not > with Clojure 1.2 libraries? I think the better approach is to ensure third party libraries are updated and available to all Clojure users - instead of placing the burden on the Clojure/core team, for a bunch of libraries over which they have no control. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- 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
