Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> writes: > On 8 Sep 2009, at 02:36, Phil Hagelberg wrote: >> However, now that clojure-mode has the M-x clojure-install command >> that sets up SLIME etc, I don't know if the built-in subprocess >> features are worth keeping around any more. Personally I have never >> used them or heard of anyone using them; I wonder if they are just >> legacy baggage. >> >> Would anyone be opposed to their removal? > > Until now I have never even looked at SLIME, considering the number of > difficulties I see reported by lots of people. Life is too short to > waste on configuration problems... and in that category I am still > busy dealing with Clojure's move to github. I still use clojure-mode > with its basic interaction commands for all my Clojure hacking.
Most of these are caused by people manually installing SLIME rather than using M-x clojure-install. I would rather focus on having one method of subprocess interaction so we can make that work as smoothly as possible than keep this vestigal functionality in here that only a handful of people use. > On the other hand, if SLIME installation is painless now, that would > be fine with me as well. Please give it a try and let me know if you have any problems. M-x clojure-install should pull in everything you need, including its own copy of Clojure 1.0. > Clojure-update is a sensible complement to clojure-install, I'd > strongly vote for keeping it. I think the value-add here is pretty minimal. Before Clojure 1.0 if a change in Clojure broke swank-clojure, we'd have to scramble to get it fixed in swank-clojure, and everyone would update. But now that there's a stable target, I haven't been tracking master closely, so staying up-to-date is much less important. Plus it's just a wrapper around a handful of shell commands. If more people use it I may keep it around, otherwise I'd suggest switching over to a shell script. -Phil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
