On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Saul Hazledine <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > The article reads to me as, "don't reinvent the wheel, everyone should > use maven." Personally I disagree with this because maven > configuration is much harder than it needs to be.
I think there's a misconception that's been spread that since Leiningen is written in Clojure, it's a break from the existing ecosystem. In truth Leiningen is mostly just a wrapper around Stuart Halloway's Lancet library (to use ant tasks) and the maven-ant-tasks library that provides dependency management. There are a few tasks that are implemented from scratch like "clean" because it's so trivial or "compile", "new", and "test" because they're Clojure-specific, but the rest of them rely on existing implementations. For the record, Leiningen is currently around 700 lines of code and was basically feature-complete after two weeks of evening and weekend work. It is true that projects that need to produce output that's more complicated than a jar or uberjar right now aren't served well by Leiningen out of the box, but that's simply because my own needs haven't included that and I haven't gotten to it yet, not because I believe that relying on ant or maven APIs is "icky" somehow. Some people have taken steps towards reimplementing this in pure-Clojure, and that may or may not be wise depending on the trade-off of how much time it takes to implement vs how much time it would take to leverage an existing solution. Ant tends to have the advantage over Maven in that case because Maven's dependency injection framework makes it rather hostile to call out to from Clojure, but the Ant ecosystem is rich enough that it should provide enough for most projects. -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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
