On Mar 25, 11:55 am, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote: > I published a blog post earlier today, along with a short screencast > that might be of interest: > > "Like any group of super-smart programmers using a relatively new > language, a lot of folks in the Clojure community have looked at > existing build tools (the JVM space is the relevant one here, meaning > primarily Maven and Ant, although someone will bark if I don't mention > Gradle, too), and felt a rush of disdain. I'd speculate that this came > mostly because of XML allergies, but perhaps also in part because when > one has a hammer as glorious as Clojure, it's hard to not want to use > it to beat away at every problem in sight."
Ruby: gem install X Perl: perl -MCPAN -e shell, then "install X" Why does building and installing dependencies have to be harder than this? Lein right now tries to fill this niche of being braindead easy to use, and comes pretty close. I realize Maven does a lot more than build and install dependencies, but for some of us, that's all we want out of life, and it's pretty nice when it's that easy to do so. My dream tool would be: 1) Platform-agnostic (for us sorry souls stuck on Windows at work) 2) IDE-agnostic ("make a Netbeans project" is great, but Emacs users need some love too) 3) Easy to understand and use for the kinds of tasks Lein covers (I don't want to have to study a Maven book(!) if I can avoid it) 4) Able to handle most or all Clojure and Java libraries I want to install (I don't want to have to circumvent the build tool and do things manually if I can help it) 5) Able to easily "browse" or search for packages in remote repositories, would be nice Rubygems and Perl's CPAN can handle those kinds of things, for example. If Maven can be those things, I'll have an XML sandwich for lunch with a smile if necessary. : ) Maybe it can and the community just needs to standardize around Maven and provide good documentation and community support for using it with Clojure. I just hope the community standardizes around something; any standard is better than everyone using a different tool. Thanks --Brian -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.