On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Manuel Prinz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Freitag, den 22.01.2010, 12:37 +0530 schrieb Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan: >> I would like to package and maintain some of the packages written with >> Clojure, a lisppy language which runs on JVM. Clojure has its own set >> of tools though many times it uses tools like maven and ant. > > It also produces byte-code for the JVM therefore organizes things in the > same way Java does. > >> I propose to have a separate pkg-clojure-maintainers project at alioth >> and would like to volunteer to create one. What do you guys think? >> Does it make sense to maintain a separate repository and list or >> should this be done as part of java packaging project itself? > > I'm not sure about that. Closure is already maintained by the Debian > Java team, as far as I can see. It's really hard to tell if it's > reasonable to have a different group working on that. From a packaging > perspective, I think it is very much like Java, and the same rules and > policies apply. I terms of language, they are totally different. One can > expect someone with experience in Java packaging fixing bugs in a > Clojure package, but probably not to fix a bug in the code. So it seems > to be a question of what you want to achieve in a Clojure group. I can > see that having a different group is worthwhile, if there is close > interaction with the Java team.
Yes, I understand what you are saying. Clojure community also use the existing java tools like ant and maven a lot. I had been reading more about the java packaging in debian and I guess it makes a lot of sense not to create a separate group for this effort. > I have to say that I came across Clojure lately and really like it, > though I probably can't put effort into that. But it's great to see that > there are people caring for it! So thanks for your effort, be it in a > separate group or not! :) Thanks. I don't know Java and Clojure is my first introduction to anything with a J in it. I like clojure a lot and hope to use it for some of my projects. ramakrishnan _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
