On Nov 27, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> Looks pretty easy and it would probably take me longer to sign and
> send the CA than to put together an antlib.xml file 8-)
>
> If anybody is interested, let me know.
I'm interested in making common developer tasks as easy as possible to
accomplish and as unsurprising as possible with Clojure.
One thing that I think would be very useful is if the target directory
for compilation could be added to classpath by the compiler at compile
time rather than externally. Currently, not only does the target
directory have to be mentioned in classpath, it also has to exist at
the time the JVM running the compiler was launched. Lifting that
restriction would be very helpful.
Here's what I think would be a good enhancement to the
clojure.lang.Compile capability we have now:
Compile should be able to run standalone and accept these inputs (via
properties or arguments or any other practical method):
a list of source directories containing clojure code. (currently
classpath is filling this role and I don't think that needs to change)
a dest directory (which may or may not yet exist and may or may not
be in classpath at JVM launch time)
a list of lib names
Compile should do whatever ClassLoader or other magic is necessary to
ensure both directories are in its effective classpath and call
clojure.core/compile to do the compilation. Rich's (compile...)
mechanism already does the "make" aspect of this--any compiled files
that exist and are newer than the corresponding source files are not
recompiled.
I'm looking into doing this, but I'd love it if you (or anyone) beat
me to it or had any suggestions to move it forward.
I'm currently working through the links returned by a Google search
for custom class loader.
--Steve
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