Oooooh, I see I see. Good to know. Thank-you sir.
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On 03/05/2010, at 1:06 PM, Timothy Washington wrote: > > > I've noticed that there are some big clojure-contrib source differences > between the 'master' branch and '1.1.0'. For example 1) 'io' is in master, > but not 1.1.0 2) json is in master, but json.read and json.write are in > 1.1.0 > > > > I assume new developments are going into 1.1.0. But is it possible to > keep track of the lost libs like io? These are the sources I'm looking at. > > • http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib/ > > • > http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib/branch-1.1.x/index.html > > > 1.1.0 is stable. The git master is the upcoming 1.2.0 > > BTW: You can't depend on *anything* in contrib. It's not part of standard > clojure (despite IMO being implicitly promoted that way on clojure.org) > and there are no guarantees about backwards compatibility. It's been stated > that contrib is a playground for new ideas that might make it into core > clojure. > > Of course, there are many useful libraries that are only available in > contrib - contrib acts as a magnet, and then infects all those useful > libraries with it's "you shouldn't be using me" status. > > I'd like to advise you to only rely on single-purpose packages you find > through dependency resolution (maven or lein) rather then the > one-version-fits-all you're-a-fool-if-you-use-this indispensable big bundle > of stuff that is contrib. But IMO that's not really feasible. > > Antony Blakey > -------------------------- > CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd > Ph: 0438 840 787 > > You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to > them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. > -- Steve Jobs > > > > -- > 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@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 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
