As some of you may know, I've recently taken over maintenance of the clojure-refactoring package for doing simple refactorings in Emacs/ SLIME with clojure-mode.
This package consists of a bunch of clojure code that does the actual refactoring, plus an elisp file that handles the editor/ui side of things. I'm working on making the whole package more reliable and one of the obvious issues right now is that installation is a two-step process that may be intimidating to new users - especially those people who don't have a lot of experience customizing their Emacs setup. Ideally, what I would like to end up with is a single-step, no-fuss install process, but I'm unsure how to best get there. Leiningen/cake based installs are good, provide the clojure dependencies and generally work fine, so I'm going with clojars right now, but users still need to extract/download the elisp code separately and keep it in sync with the clojure code. Which is annoying and intimidating to people new to Emacs. Marmalade packages for elisp also work fine but as far as I can see, you can't easily include clojure jars with marmalade packages and also make them work "out of the box" with SLIME. The most straight-forward solution I can think of right now is to split the package in half; put the elisp code on marmalade and provide a clojars jar for use as a leiningen plugin/project dependency, but if anyone can think of a reasonable way of making things simpler than that for the end-users, I would appreciate any suggestions. I think it would make a lot of probably already overwhelmed new Emacs / Clojure users feel a little less intimidated. :) Please let me know what you think is a good idea. Thanks in advance, Joost Diepenmaat. References: clojure-refactoring page: https://github.com/joodie/clojure-refactoring Clojars pom/lein info: http://clojars.org/joodie/clojure-refactoring -- 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
