Contrib (the license, provenance assurance, issue tracking) is one
thing. Contrib (the monolithic deployment jar) is another.
Historically they have been the same, but they don't have to be.
Antony wants simple minimal dependencies. I want the provenance
assurance, and the process that is (slowly) coming into play with
Contrib.
How can we get both?
Stu
On 24/05/2010, at 1:11 PM, Drew Colthorp wrote:
A few weeks ago I announced a pattern matching library called
matchure. I'm excited to say it's being merged into clojure.contrib
as
clojure.contrib.match. I'd like some feedback on ideas for some
backward-incompatible changes I'm planning to make before it's
actually pushed to clojure.contrib.
...
Anyone have an opinion?
Yes - please don't put this in clojure.contrib, for two reasons:
1. The stated instruction is to not depend on clojure.contrib, and
the feedback I've received when I stated that I did in fact depend
on it was that I was a fool for not following the instructions i.e.
RTFI.
2. clojure.contrib is a large, monolithic bag of stuff, with a
single version number. So to track changes to matchure I will be
forced to track all of the changes to clojure.contrib. This is made
even more difficult because clojure.contrib has no backwards
compatibility intention. I know you don't either, but given the
large number of different components in clojure.contrib, the
likelihood of breaking changes for each commit is greatly increased.
It's been breaking a lot recently, and given the number of third
party components that depend on it (in spite of the warning), the
knock-on effect is playing havoc with configuration management.
Why don't you just keep developing as matchure - there's no reason
that everything destined for core needs to first pass into the
quarantine zone that is clojure.contrib.
Antony Blakey
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