2016-07-14 18:38 GMT+02:00 Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org>: > Toby gave you a good answer re “LATEST” and “RELEASE” but I’ll comment on > stability of Clojure Alpha builds in general: > > > > We first went to production with Clojure in 2011 on 1.3.0 Alpha 7 (or 8, I > no longer remember which). We’re currently in production with 1.9.0 Alpha > 10. Prerelease builds of Clojure have been remarkably stable and this > allows us to leverage new functionality as soon as it becomes available. > > > > In particular, 1.9.0 Alpha 10 is just 1.8.0 + a handful of new predicates > in core + clojure.spec. > > > > The new predicates may cause warnings or errors if you’re using libraries > that define their own versions but we have already adopted several of them > so we could simplify our existing code and remove some of our own custom > predicates. > > > > Otherwise it’s a purely additive release and you can simply ignore > clojure.spec if you’re not ready to use it (we’re already developing new > production code on top of it, although that hasn’t been merged to our > production branch yet). > > > > We have had automated testing against Clojure’s master SNAPSHOT for years > so we always get an early heads up if an upcoming “RELEASE” change would > break anything. That’s easy to do with Leiningen profiles or Boot pods (and > tasks like boot-expectations allow you to specify which version of Clojure > to use, so multi-version testing is pretty much trivial!). >
Well, I could put in my profiles.clj LATEST and in all my project.clj 1.8.0 . -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
