I've been working on an easy to use open source community repository to complement Leiningen in making building and dependency management easier for Clojure projects.
http://clojars.org/ It's inspired by the fantastic Gemcutter.org website that the Ruby community uses. The repository is in the standard Maven repository layout so in addition to Leiningen it will be usable with other tools like Maven and Ivy as well. The repository URL is http://clojars.org/repo but if you're using Leiningen you don't have to do anything special to use it as it's already on the list of default repositories. To push to the repository you don't need any special tools, just create a pom.xml giving your project a group, name, version and a list of dependencies and scp it to cloj...@clojars.org. With Leiningen this looks like: lein pom scp pom.xml myproject.jar cloj...@clojars.org: But if even that's too long and complicated for you I wrote a Leiningen plugin which makes it just: lein push There's a tutorial which goes through creating, building a simple library with Leiningen and then pushing it to Clojars repository here: http://wiki.github.com/ato/clojars-web/tutorial But what about Maven Central? It's a huge hassle to get things into Maven Central. You generally have to get manual approval from someone which can take a while and the requirements are quite complex. I wanted a much simpler and quicker way of distributing jars that you can use for forks and personal projects as well. Can I upload Java libraries? If a Java library is not already in the Maven Central repository and you'd like to use it in a Clojure project, sure. I'm targetting Clojure but there's nothing stopping you from uploading jars for Java or JRuby or Scala or anything else. If you upload a library which you're not the author/maintainer of, please give it a personal groupId like 'org.clojars.your-username' so that you don't squat on the project's official groupId. Please let me know if you encounter any problems and I'll do my best to resolve them. -- 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
