Hello Daniel Thank you for the quick response. Just to clarify and see if my understanding is correct. Please correct if I am wrong.
On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 10:35:57 PM UTC-7, Daniel Solano Gómez wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks for your interest. > On Sun Mar 8 17:17 2015, Devang Shah wrote: > > This message is intended for suggester Daniel Solano Gómez, to initiate > the > > discussion on the project mentioned in the subject line. Please feel > free > > to jump in if you feel/wish to answer the questions or clarify points. > > > > I am interested in developing a plugin for the Clojure which will work > in > > conjunction to the Android plugin. As I understand the project idea, > > > > TODO: > > 1. Develop functionality into the lein-droid (as an independent plugin) > to > > support Gradle build system. > > 2. The new functionality has to be compatible with the current Android > > plugin in lein-droid. > > 3. Develop a "superset" and independent plugin to support build system > and > > integration of Clojure and Android. > > 4. Since the new plugin will be integrated into the lein-driod, also > modify > > lein-droid to support the new plugin. > > I think these are the right steps, as a whole, but I think I would > tackle them in the following order: > > 1. Develop a Clojure plug-in for the Gradle-based Android build system > The new clojure plug-in will be sister project of the lein-droid project implementing same features (more or less) as in lein-droid. But, for Gradle based Android project. That is, generate a Gradle project for Android with build.gradle and other files. Is that right? > 2. Examine lein-droid's features and see which can or should be handled > by the Android build system > other end: if required modify Android build system so that the pluin-in that is developed in step one is integrated successfully with the Android build system. Question: What is this Android build system that we refer to? > 3. Rewrite bits of lein-droid to use the new build system > > Aside from the work on developing the Gradle plug-in, the key bits is > figuring out exactly what lein-droid does and how that maps onto what > the new Android build system does. Additionally, would it be possible > to generate a build.gradle file from the project.clj? > > > Questions (Project specific): > > 5. Can you elaborate "Unfortunately, because the Android plugin replaces > > the Java plugin, the current Clojure plugin doesn't work for Android." > What > > do you mean "replaces the Java plugin"? > > Gradle comes with a plug-in to compile Java. Clojuresque, the Clojure > plug-in for Gradle depends on this Java plug-in. Unfortunately, the > Android build system does away with the Java plug-in (the Android > plug-in is in charge of compiling Java), so Clojuresque doesn't work > there. This is why a new Clojure plug-in is needed. > > > Also, can someone highlight in brief some features (of Gradle plugin) > that > > we are planning to support? Any known features that are not supported by > > the current build system? > > Ideally, you could just include the Clojure plug-in into an Android > build.gradle, and it will handle all Clojure sources similarly to > Android Java sources are handled (build types, etc.). It should also > present all the necessary options to configure the plug-in, such as > source directory locations, Clojure compiler options, etc. It would be > good to review what Clojuresque supports. > Can you please elaborate the last line "just include the Clojure plug-in into an Android build.gradle... "? I mean why do we want to handle all Clojure sources? If we are develop the plug-in similar to lein-droid, shouldn't it be able to generate gradle based Android project. (I am sorry, I am new to Gradle). Please correct if I understand it wrong. > > > Questions: (GSoC application specific): > > 6. Where can I get the template for the application? > > 7. What are all the things expected to be addressed in the application. > > > Please refer to: > http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Student+application+guidelines > > Again, thank you for your interest. Please feel free to post to this > e-mail list and the clojure-android list for more feedback on your idea. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel > > > > > Thank you. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:> > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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