If you use Cake to build your project, then "cake bin" will create a standalone executable.
Cheers, -Michael On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Damon Snyder wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I'm have a side project that I'm working on that I want to distribute > as a standalone script. This is probably best illustrated as an > example. What I would like to be able to do is give users a script, so > they can do: > > gantry -H example.host.com -f examples/tasks.clj uptime > > Instead of > > java -jar gantry-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar -H example.host.com - > f examples/tasks.clj uptime > > What I'm curious about is what is the best practice within the > community for doing this? Backing up for a minute, to me, the first > invokation would be the preferred in my mind. Perhaps the second isn't > so bad if you are used to interacting with jar files in this way. I > think I would prefer that the details of running java be abstracted > away from the command line user's experience. > > A few approaches I have thought about: 1) Upload the stand alone jar > to github and have the "gantry" script pull down the standalone into > ~/.gantry and construct the command line. 2) Create a cake wrapper > (not preferred because it introduces a dependency). 3) Forget the > wrapper and just distribute the jar. > > The project I am talking about is here: https://github.com/drsnyder/gantry. > Thanks, > Damon > > -- > 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
