OSGi is becoming the de facto standard for solving the runtime issues around versioning and classpath management in the standard Java world. As for development versioning issues, Maven is the de facto standard.
While I certainly don't think that Clojure 1.0 should have any dependency on OSGi, I'd personally like to see the libraries evolve that direction with some library API support. The API support would likely parallel the OSGi jar manifest declarations. That API could serve both as build time code to generate the static manifest files necessary to play in an OSGi container as well as runtime declarations of services and dynamic dependencies. On Apr 16, 12:28 pm, Dan <redalas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > my view of Java's backward compatibility is that it is kind of a bunch > > of hot air that restricts the ecosystem from being better. i vastly > > prefer the fact that .net is willing to make real changes to get real > > benefits. > > > sincerely. > > $0.02 > > And that requires shoe-horning new stuff in the old framework like using > that $ convention for inner classes for instance, I agree. > > I did not suggest the language and API should not change and remain forever > compatible, only that if possible, instead of doing something like this: > > (if (> *clojure-version* 1.0) (do-something) (do-something-else)) > > I could do something like: > > (ns my-namespace (:clojure-version "1.0")) > > and expect clojure to reroute through the old code and the old api. > > Clojure would stay free to evolve. The question is whether or not the cost > of maintaining the plumbings to require old APIs is worth the cost. > > I am not really apt to judge what it involves so I'll wait for others to > enlighten me. > > If it's not worth the cost, I'd be happy with a "works-perfectly, warns, > gone" deprecation policy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
