On Mar 4, 7:33 am, Jan Rychter <j...@rychter.com> wrote: > I haven't hacked on new Clojure stuff for the past two months or > so. Now, having updated my repositories, I find that everybody just > dropped ant and moved to leiningen. > > I tried to make sense of things, but can't. I must be missing something > big here.
[...] > How do people deal with this? Here's how I do it. We've got five people in different places with different systems writing code for a dozen projects, of which five are Clojure projects. We use a common git server for coordination. Our standard project layout places all five Clojure projects as siblings in a common directory, along with a directory called "xglib" that contains common libraries. We tried leiningen, and it's appealing in some ways, but it makes too many assumptions about the way projects are organized, and its habit of downloading scads of jars quickly became annoying. We have five projects with partially-overlapping dependencies, some of which have others as dependencies. It was tiresome always to have multiple redundant copies of the same jars all over the place, so instead we created the common xglib directory, which is a sibling of the projects, and which contains all the libraries used by them. We use NetBeans as our standard IDE, not because I like it (I don't like any current-generation IDE) but because it works, and telling new contributors how to set it up to work with our projects is easy. So each project is, in fact, a NetBeans project. We also use Emacs, because a couple of use hate it slightly less than we hate NetBeans. We have a custom variant of swank-clojure-project (just a couple of function definitions, really) that knows how to find our common libraries directory and add all the jars in it to the CLASSPATH before running the Clojure REPL. It's also possible to use other editors (TextMate, for example) with this setup. The standard way we do builds is with NetBeans, but we can also do them with ant. It's not great, but it works, and it stays out of our way better than anything else we've tried so far. A couple of us are old Lisp hackers with memories of things like SK8 and Leibniz and MCL and SPE and Genera, so grumbling is ongoing, but we must adapt to the times we live in. -- 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
