Is this still current? http://clojure.github.io/clojure-contrib/
On Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:19:15 PM UTC-5, Sean Corfield wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Steven Degutis > <sbde...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Changing clojure.test seems like the wrong way to go. Being attached to > a CA > > makes it hard to contribute to. > > It's a one-off action. Sign it, send it in. Then you can contribute to > Clojure or any of its contrib libraries from then on. Not exactly > "hard". > > > Being attached to Clojure makes it too slow-moving. > > Not true. Go look at the contrib libraries and see how they have > evolved. Nothing holds them back. The number of contributors - and the > number of libraries - is growing all the time. > > > I think everyone involved in the IRC discussion agreed that clojure.test > > should be deprecated it in favor of a backward-compatible, faster-moving > > successor. I'm certainly all for it. > > A backward-compatible, faster-moving successor is certainly possible > within the contrib system. It is more likely to be used as a > dependency by other libraries and it is more discoverable. > > > But maybe being a contrib-lib isn't a bad idea. I really > > don't know much about them and how they work. > > Don't dismiss it until you know more about them and the process > involved. If clojure.test was replaced within the contrib context, I'd > be far more likely to contribute to it than to some random third-party > library. > > > But that's what I meant, that he's proposing we start with his lib and > add > > extensibility in the places we want it. So my response to that still > > applies. > > Your response was to a point he didn't make. > > > In my experience, when a tool comes out that people think is genuinely > > better, these things work themselves out. See how nrepl.el replaced > swank. > > How leiningen replaced cake. How ring+compojure placed webjure and > others. > > How Clojure replaced Ruby and CL and Python for a lot of us. > > True, but none of those were part of Clojure or contrib - and > tools.nrepl IS part of contrib now. > > > The low number of JIRA tickets probably says more about JIRA than > > clojure.test. You said those 3 tickets were the only ones against > > clojure.test, but in the discussion there were many more complaints. > > Yes, people tend to complain but don't actually do anything about it - > they don't open tickets - so nothing gets done :) > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
