Could you point to more information regarding the numeric changes? I can't seem to pinpoint anything in particular here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/1.3.x/changes.txt
On Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:05:13 PM UTC-5, Sean Corfield wrote: > > If you truly have "thousands" of Clojure 1.2 apps, I'd go with option > 1), and look at migrating legacy reports over if you need to do any > maintenance on them. Since Clojure is "just" a Java library, it's > fairly easy to keep the Clojure version locked in each individual > project so there's no reason to migrate old, working reports if you > don't have to do any maintenance / updates on them. > > The differences in numerics as well as the difference between > monolithic contrib and modern, modular contrib could eat up a lot of > your time in migration and, unless you are constantly updating all > those reports, I'm not sure what the benefits would be. > > Sean > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:51 PM, <solo...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > At my company, we use Clojure for reporting. Specifically, reports are > > written in Clojure which integrate data from a variety of sources and > > display the final output to the user in a WPF-based webapp. > > > > For all intents and purposes, each 'report' is a standalone Clojure app, > and > > most of them use the contrib library. Not all of them are active, but > there > > are thousands. And I need to migrate them over to 1.5. > > > > Now I know the contrib libraries are not compatible with 1.3+. From what > > I've read, the big change is related to dynamic var declaration, and > there > > are subtle incompatibilities involving certain scalars. I also looked at > > this page for information on each library's migration: > > http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Where+Did+Clojure.Contrib+Go > > > > I'm considering one of two approaches: > > > > 1) Run both Clojure 1.2 and 1.5, with all new reports required to use > the > > modular contrib libraries. This would require a change to the backend > > appservers. > > > > 2) Grep the reports and create a list of all the distinct contrib > libraries > > we use. Identify which of the libraries have a modular analog, and > replace > > accordingly. To do this, I would need to check that the function > signatures > > match and the output is remains as expected. I would also still need to > run > > 1.2 running in production and 1.5 in a sandbox to migrate reports over > > gradually. > > > > Asking individual authors to update their reports won't work. > > > > Please share your opinions on these approaches or what your experience > was > > in migrating from 1.2 to 1.3+. > > > > Also, is there an easier way which I'm not seeing? Thank you. > > > > Sol > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your > > first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ > > "Perfection is the enemy of the good." > -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
