Just provide a vector of multiple paths and it'll work fine. It's just an omission from the docs. Feel free to file an issue.
https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/test_pr...
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Have you looked at Clojure? [Huge ramble to follow] Clojure is a particularly interesting functional language for a python programmer IMO. It shares a number of asthetic and…
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| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 2 | 14 |
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Hello Github User!
The Leiningen project has moved the repository off Github.
Please switch your git remotes over to https://codeberg.org/leiningen/leiningen
Codeberg works just like Github, and you can even use your Github
account to log in there, but it is operated like a user-owned
cooperative with a democratic governance model
instead of being an extractive arm of an unaccountable abusive megacorp.
As usual, you can join the #leiningen IRC channel on
Libera.Chat to discuss issues.
Any use of this project's code by Github Copilot, past or present, is done
without our permission. We do not consent to use of this project's
data in training Copilot or any other language model.
Packagers' note: if you are a downstream maintainer whose scripts
download the Leiningen uberjar, we will continue to host those on Github
in order to reduce the load on Codeberg. However, the uberjars are the
only thing that will continue to be updated here.
For your consideration
I get it, Github is what everyone uses. But it's never been a good
idea to allow one company to have a monopoly, and it's an even worse
idea when that company has a history of abusing their monopoly.
If you haven't taken a look at Github alternatives, now's a great time
to evaluate a new home for your project! If you took a look at Gitlab
a few years ago and were put off by its clunkiness and bugs, you
should know that there are much better alternatives now.
Codeberg is perhaps the most polished
alternative, but Sourcehut is also quite nice
for minimalists, and if you're adventurous you could try running your
own Forgejo. Or maybe you don't even need a
forge?
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
11 sourcesSee: https://github.com/flatland/cake and https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen. No Maven involved.
The only other comparable standard virtual machines are LLVM and CLR. Python doesn't really make sense in that it's a language, not a VM, and "Python" doesn't automatically connote a runtime like how Java is something of a synonym for the JVM. Incidentally, there is a Clojure port to the CLR. There are also always people working to port it to either LLVM or native code or whatnot and the mainstream community always looks at them oddly wondering what the heck they'd want to throw out Java compatibility for.
In Which one is more likely to succeed: clojure or arc?As someone who's used Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure; out of that bunch I would highly recommend Clojure for a beginner.
Pros:
1. Easier to setup
(with a single script from https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen)
2. Benefits of a lisp-1, with nicer syntax (fewer confusing parens)
3. Easier to get started with Emacs + swank-clojure + lein
4. Wealth of Java libraries
5. Functional
Cons:
1. Can't think of any, unless you want Interface Builder and similar, or are desperate to program using call/cc or are in any of the above ways a non-beginner. drscheme is a nice counterpoint though, in that the learning enviroment could include a bit more hand-holding.
IMHO for those coming from ruby/python etc. Clojure is a huge win. With square brackets for function-args, if you turn off or dim parens (emacs has several options such as rainbow-pare
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ns) the source looks very much like python.
And with M-q and friends and sexp editing, it behaves better.
I can't comment on Scala, but I think Clojure is starting to get to the point where you can learn just Clojure and not have to think about Java until much later. At some point you'll assuredly interact with Java some, but there are a ton of libs out there now that are simple Clojure wrappers around most common things.
Really, to get started with Clojure, all you need to do is install Leiningen (https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) and type "lein repl" in a terminal window. No ant, wars, or jvm's to think about :)
In Tackling my first Clojure project, a Graphical HTTP Benchmarker in ClojureRegarding Clojure on Emacs, just use the up-to-date stuff by technomancy. The following is based on my notes from a recent talk by Phil Hagelberg at a Boston Clojure Meetup.
1. Download lein from
https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein
2. Launch lein (self-install) from the command line.
3. Run lein plugin install swank-clojure 1.3.0 on the command line.
4. When you first run swank, it may complain you do not have project.clj or something like that, because it expects to be launched form inside a project directory. You may create a dummy project directory (cd; lein new dummy; cd dummy).
You need to run the above steps once, to install. Run the following at the beginning of a clojure session:
5. Run lein swank on the command line.
6. In emacs, run slime-connect (with the default parameters, most likely).
In case I have
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garbled the above, I am sure someone will correct me. Although I did it both on Windows and MacOs and it worked. (On Windows, I use bash shell form the MinGW project, but I see no reason for the standard Windows shell not to work.)
Separately, you may want to install clojure-mode from the same repository.
Happy hacking!
With Leiningen, my Clojure project (http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) I make an effort to periodically publish any "low-hanging fruit" TODOs that are suitable for newcomers to implement. There hasn't been as much recently since most of that kind of thing has been implemented, but explicitly calling out those places has helped a lot in the past.
In Why I still don’t contribute to open source> It seems to be a compile time only tool.
Out-of-the-box it's a development tool, but it has plugins for certain types of deployment: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/wiki/Plugins
You can create tar/jar/war files, deploy artifacts to remote mvn repositories, push to the Google App Engine or Elastic Beanstalk, etc. Deployment to generic unix servers is handled by Pallet, which integrates well with Leiningen: https://github.com/pallet/pallet-lein
> Does it let different applications share libraries when possible?
This goes strongly against the culture of the JVM for various reasons that are outside the scope of Clojure itself.
> Can you push a security fix for a library to servers in the field without completely rebuilding and redeploying every application that uses the library.
Sure, this is pretty easy to do with Swank, but the s
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pecifics are going to vary widely based on the type of deployment.
(defproject leiningen "1.5.0-RC1"
:description "A build tool designed not to set your hair on fire."
:url "https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen"
:license {:name "Eclipse Public License"}
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
[org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
[lancet "1.0.0"]
[jline "0.9.94"]
[robert/hooke "1.1.0"]
[org.apache.maven/maven-ant-tasks "2.0.10" :exclusions [ant]]]
:disable-implicit-clean true
:eval-in-leiningen true)
In Why we are choosing Clojure as our main programming languageouch ... formatting is clearly not preserved :(
But take a look at https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen
In Why we are choosing Clojure as our main programming languageJust to collaborate a little bit on this point. With leiningen things are not too bad.
A typical deployment instruction file (project.clj) looks like this and with "lein deps" you're all set up in a few seconds.
(defproject leiningen "0.5.0-SNAPSHOT"
:description "A build tool designed to not set your hair on fire."
:url "http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.1.0"]
[org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.1.0"]]
:dev-dependencies [[swank-clojure "1.2.1"]])
In Why we are choosing Clojure as our main programming languageI agree with you about the classpath being a pain in the JVM, but Leiningen (https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) does make the classpath much less painful.
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