I'm beginning to do more work in Clojure (just a side project for now, but an interesting one).
A couple of things I'm missing from Clojure in terms of building & deploying an application is built-in Ant tasks for common actions: - Pre-compiling Clojure - Starting up a REPL (and perhaps passing a form to evaluate) - Generating XML/HTML documentation Two of these things are possible using clumsy Ant operation. Creating a proper Ant task for them is not much work and would make it easier and more consistent for Clojure library builders. I've seen that the documentation for clojure-contrib if generated automatically; perhaps some of that logic could move into clojure-lang? Of course, this could all be done as part of clojure-contrib, and virtually any real project will use some of clojure-contrib but it still feels more "complete" to have it build into clojure-lang. Flip side: a fourth task for running tests should be in clojure-contrib (or test-is should move to clojure-lang). So do others feel the same need for these things as I do? And do they belong in clojure-lang or clojiure-contrib? -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry Director of Open Source Technology at Formos --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
