sounds like we need at least three things: 1) clojure-sandbox 2) clojure-extensions (for the CLR and javascript and jfreechart) 3) core-candidates .... for things that seem like they might grow up to be in the core. This would have the intent rzezeski and I were talking about. things here say to the world, "this was needed by someone for clojure to be useful. maybe it's universally so, and folks can get a break from typing a long namespace to get the functionality"
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2:10 pm, "rzeze...@gmail.com" <rzeze...@gmail.com> wrote: > > P.S. I don't want to get off-track, but I also don't understand why > > ClojureCLR or clojurescript are included in Contrib. I also don't > > understand why test files are not under their own top level dir? I > > think that is a good convention and allows for easier tooling. > > The answer to all these questions is that: contrib has grown > organically, without anyone imposing structure. Rich Hickey has taken > a largely hands-off approach, allowing us to use contrib as a sandbox > to share useful clojure code. > > I think it's valuable to have contrib as a sandbox. But this > discussion shows it's also valuable to have Clojure libraries with > their own external dependencies. > > Contrib right now is just an SVN repo, so it's pretty limited in terms > of what it can do. If we want to handle multiple projects, with > different dependencies, we need a more sophisticated system. We can > try to piggyback on an existing Java system like Maven or Ivy, or > start from scratch. But someone(s) will then have to take > responsibility for maintaining that repository. > > -Stuart Sierra > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
