I don't really understand why snapshots should be in Clojars at all, yeah. It seems to me like CPAN, RubyGems, etc., encourage versioned software and not "snapshots", because they're going for non-volatile, stable packages. I think Clojars should, too. You're right, that's neither here nor there re: 2.0, though, so I guess if we want to talk about that, we can take it to another thread.
David On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 4:06 PM, David Jacobs wrote: >> >> > - better discovery for existing, well-tested libraries. >> >> You can search on http://clojars.org/. This works well for me. >> However, the key to well tested libraries is having people give >> feedback if a library breaks or is badly documented or doesn't meet >> their needs. > > To me, Clojars is not the most discoverable interface in the world, though I > do appreciate that it exists. It doesn't have download counts or any other > sort of quality indicator. What's more, some entries are domain-qualified and > others aren't, and it's hard to know exactly what I'm getting when I install > any package from Clojars. > > I've never quite understood the criticism that it's difficult to find Clojure > libraries -- perhaps because I came primarily from the Java and Python > worlds, both of which share the same library-discovery mechanism (i.e. > Google). > That said, of course it'd be great to have a top-notch directory (and it > looks like various people are working on that). In any case, this isn't > relevant to the language's versioning. > > Side question (also relating to the ecosystem feeling rough), what's with all > the "SNAPSHOT"s on Clojars? > > Clojars provides only one repository, where both SNAPSHOTs and releases are > deployed. AFAICT, few people understand what SNAPSHOT implies, and the > importance of having sane releases (i.e. a non-SNAPSHOT version as well as > having no transitive SNAPSHOT-versioned dependencies). It's an unfortunate > state of affairs. > Cheers, > - Chas > > -- > 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 -- 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
