I still remember the first time I was introduced to Smalltalk, when my colleague demonstrated the class-browser - it was one of those jaw-dropping moments: all that information at your finger-tips of a live- and living system…
Guess nowadays it's more nostalgia than anything else, but in many ways that Smalltalk development environment is still a hard act to follow. Hopefully this Clojure Namespace Browser will get us one small step closer to our ultimate development environment (… although I'm sure that some of you emacs-gurus believe you're already there ;-) ). The graphical browser should give you easier access to the documentation strings of all the vars in your live clojure project, as well as the source code, and clojuredocs' examples&comments. You can get all that info from the repl, but hopefully this browser should make it easier to … browse, explore, and find stuff in Clojure's vast collection of libraries. The installation is dead-simple - just add: :dev-development [[clj-ns-browser "1.0.0"]] to your project.clj file, start your repl, evaluate (use 'clj-ns-browser.sdoc), and then (sdoc), and your up and running with this namespace browser always one click or (sdoc…) away… Caveat… it all works well on my MacOSX, but I have seen some issues with Lubuntu and missing "unloaded namespaces" - also I haven't tested it on windoze or other OS-flavors. So you mileage may vary… The code and some more info with some screenshots are available at: https://github.com/franks42/clj-ns-browser Finally, kudos to Dave Ray and his Seesaw - fantastic tool and near real-time support on the mailing list. (this has essentially been a 2 week project after Clojure-Conj/West - an "after the kids are asleep" project - no experience with Swing… a testament of how good seesaw is as an abstraction tool…) Please let me know if it works for you, and suggestions and feedback are more than welcome. Enjoy, FrankS. -- 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
