One important piece of information about this feature is that it doesn't manipulate classloaders. This feature was designed to be used with OSGi or applications that handle their own classloading issues. In a typical application when entering a namespace isolation you may also need to bind a separate Compiler/LOADER and Thread context loader, but those classloaders can, and should, have common parent classloaders to load clojure from the same classloader. This feature simply isolates clojure namespaces, it doesn't manipulate the underlying Java support systems which can already be manipulated with existing clojure features. The benefit of this feature is that you can create separate namespace environments with different copies of the same namespace names without needing to run separate run-times making it possible for them to directly share all clojure data types via shared namespaces since they're loaded by the same classloader. A side effect of the implementation is that it is possible to copy namespaces from one environment to another if you have the pointer returned from creating the environment. I have considered adding automatic creation of dynamic classloaders and associating them with isolation environments but that can be done from libraries using existing clojure features.
For future reference since additional features will likely be added to this fork, this feature is implemented via the git commit https://github.com/rritoch/clojure/commit/0f4804bbf584049fd85ffa872f10522cc41eff9a -- 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/d/optout.
