Hi Gary, As you probably know there are hundreds of patches and PR's that aren't merged. There's a small number of committers spread across a lot of packages. People tend to work on packages that they are interested in using.
If you'd like to run it yourself then the easiest way will be to use guix's load-path ability and then you can build and run the packages locally. Obviously, this takes effort but the fact that Guix supports this and channels means that people aren't completely dependent on the central repository. Java and Clojure don't get that much attention overall in Guix. I did look at Clojure a bit, as I enjoy it, but in the end I didn't feel it was massively useful packaging it and the Clojure communities general opinion was that users should download tools and libraries directly (for example see Sean Cornfields comments [0]. Steve / Futurile [0] https://clojureverse.org/t/should-linux-distributions-ship-clojure-byte-compiled-aot-or-not/10595/7 On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 01:04:23PM +0700, Gary Johnson via wrote: > I read through the issue thread, and I don't understand why this hasn't been > resolved. It looks like a patch was submitted a year ago. Can someone on the > Guix dev team merge this or share why it wasn't merged? > > Thanks, > Gary > > On 22 October 2025 12:07:44 GMT+07:00, Ben Sturmfels <[email protected]> > wrote: > >Hi Andres > > > >Just spotted your help-guix post. Just FYI this is discussed further in the > >following issue (no resolution yet): > > > >https://issues.guix.gnu.org/73432 > > > >I'm similarly affected and am currently having to use upstream Clojure with > >selected projects, rather than "clojure-tools" - including a project based > >on Kit. > > > >Regards, > >Ben > > > >On 1/7/24 01:16, Andres Moreno wrote: > >> I started to play with the Kit Web Framework and followed the instructions > >> to build the default example, > >> https://kit-clj.github.io/docs/guestbook.html#guestbook_application > >> > >>> clojure -Ttools install com.github.seancorfield/clj-new '{:git/tag > >> "v1.2.404"}' :as clj-new > >>> clojure -Tclj-new create :template io.github.kit-clj :name kit/guestbook > >>> cd guestbook > >> > >> I then try to start a CIDER repl by typing: > >> > >>> clj -M:dev:cider > >> > >> This fails with a class-not-found error: > >> > >> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xnio/channels/StreamSourceChannel > >> > >> The complaint comes from > >> > >> Exception in thread "main" Syntax error compiling . at > >> (ring/adapter/undertow/request.clj:10:17) > >> > >> I can get rid of this issue by adding > >> > >> org.jboss.xnio/xnio-api {:mvn/version "3.8.16.Final"} > >> org.jboss.xnio/xnio-nio {:mvn/version "3.8.16.Final"} > >> > >> to my deps.edn file. > >> > >> Eventually, I succeeded and got a REPL working, but there were a few > >> additional classes that threw errors when I invoked the (go) function at > >> the REPL: those erors were fixed by adding the below to the deps.edn file: > >> > >> org.wildfly.common/wildfly-common {:mvn/version "2.0.0"} > >> org.jboss.logging/jboss-logging {:mvn/version "3.6.0.Final"} > >> io.smallrye.config/smallrye-config-common {:mvn/version "3.8.3"} > >> io.smallrye.common/smallrye-common-net {:mvn/version "2.4.0"} > >> org.jboss.threads/jboss-threads {:mvn/version "3.6.1.Final"} > >> io.smallrye.common/smallrye-common-cpu {:mvn/version "2.4.0"} > >> > >> Set-up on Guix System: > >> > >> - openjdk 21.0.2 (also tested: openjdk 11.0.22) > >> - clojure-tools 1.11.2.1446 > >> > >> Note that I can run the above on Debian 12.6 just as the documentation > >> suggests, with no need to add any additional classes to the deps.edn file > >> when I have clojure-tools manually installed on Debian per the script on > >> the Clojure website. > >> > >> Additionally, I got the same errors when I used clojure-tools on Debian > >> using the Guix package manager. This suggests that the issue is related to > >> clojure-tools. > >> > >> I have a work-around so this issue is in no way critical. Nevertheless, I > >> thought that I should report it should the folks that look after the > >> clojure-tools package want to look into it. I don't know my way around the > >> Clojure web stack so I couldn't figure out how to provide a simpler > >> example. > >> > >> I will try to find something simpler in a different domain in the meantime. > >> > >> Regards, afm > > > > >
