It's the way it is because that's the way it was done nearly 4 years ago. If people want to see it improved submit patches.
David On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Jeremy Shoemaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I started playing around with ClojureScript on NodeJS recently, and I was > looking at making a lein template for making CLI tools that would work with > npm so that the "binaries" end up in your path and can be used like any > other NodeJS CLI tool. > > I ran into trouble quickly because it seems when you compile using :target > :nodejs, at runtime, it's expected that you set *main-cli-fn* to something. > > In this case, I don't need that because I'm writing a wrapper JS file that > runs the tool and is specified in the "bin" section of the package.json > file that npm looks for. > > It looks like it's trying to execute the main function as soon as I > require the compiled JS file. > > My question is, why is this behaviour forced as it is? It breaks what I'm > trying to do, but worse it seems to preclude the possibility of writing a > library that can be required into other NodeJS projects, even Javascript > projects. It just seems to me that forcing this makes it harder to use > ClojureScript with the rest of the Javascript NodeJS ecosystem. I don't > see how I could write a ClojureScript NodeJS library that can be used by > someone using Javascript on NodeJS. > > Is there some way I can work around this limitation? If you need example > code, I can provide some. > > Thanks, > Jeremy > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
