Howdy! Just for the record, and while I write my comments to Elana's email on my proposal on how to proceed, I would like to complement Alex's statement with my own experience on this.
TL; DR: From my experience, Debian's `clojure` functionality is *a subset* of upstream's `clj`'s functionality. (Which, in turn, is a wrapper for the upstream `clojure` script.) Moreover, Debian's `clojurec`'s functionality is also included in upstream's `clojure`. Details below. On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 10:42, Alex Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I assume the existing `clojure` is just a simple wrapper that calls > clojure.main. > The clj/clojure from the brew-install clojure tools do much more than that > and are extensively documented as the official Clojure CLI tools. I assume Alex's referring to the following links: https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli Now, my two cents :-) Whereas I have repeated I don't consider myself a Clojure expert, I do some Clojure from time to time. As I normally work on deps-based projects (a functionality Debian doesn't currently have), I have had to resort to the official upstream Clojure installer. I have checked the packaging code from Debian's source package `clojure`. Shall we compare that to what upstream currently offers? On the one hand, Debian currently provides two wrappers. - Debian's `clojure` (wraps `clojure.main` with `rlwrap`). - Debian's `clojurec` (wraps `java -cp ...` to easily compile Clojure code - irrelevant for this discussion). On the other hand, upstream currently provides one script and one wrapper. - upstream's `clojure` (a script that includes deps-based functionality, an easy way to compile Clojure code, and more - see the docs) - upstream's `clj` (wraps upstream's `clojure` with `rlwrap`) To sum up: >From my experience, Debian's `clojure` functionality is *a subset* of upstream's `clj`'s functionality. (Which, in turn, is a wrapper for the upstream `clojure` script.) Moreover, Debian's `clojurec`'s functionality is also included in upstream's `clojure`. Of course, everything I state above could be wrong :-) Please, feel free to correct such statements as you see fit. (Please, stay tuned for my ideas on how to package all this... and a possible migration path :-) Best, Leandro
