On Saturday, October 1, 2011 8:25:21 PM UTC-5, Andy Fingerhut wrote: > > Tal, did you consider the possibility of staying with Clojure 1.2.1 and its > libraries? Or was that not under consideration for some reason? >
It was a consideration, but the cons seemed to outweigh the pros. Staying with 1.2 meant not only staying with the Clojure core, which worked fine, but also losing any progress on any of the contribs, which was frankly more important to me than core language changes. Perhaps part of the really big issue here is not Clojure per se, but the contribs. In one fell swoop, the entire contrib universe for 1.2 was being deprecated. I saw no commitment anywhere that bug fixes would be backported to the 1.2 contrib library. (I'm not making a principled stand here: the clojure contrib library as of 1.2 was very spotty in quality, and required many workarounds for bugs in my code. I very much look forward to fixes there.) I should also mention that I'm a maintainer of two open source projects in the Clojure ecosystem. As such, I had some responsibility to keep them up to date with 1.3. It's been a bumpy ride there, too, but I knew what I was signing up for. :) -- 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
