No. Read http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Where+Did+Clojure.Contrib+Go
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Steven Degutis <sbdegu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> 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. > > -- 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.
