clojure packaging

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Manuel Prinz <manuel at debian.org> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 22.01.2010, 12:37 +0530 schrieb Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan:
>> I would like to package and maintain some of the packages written with
>> Clojure, a lisppy language which runs on JVM. Clojure has its own set
>> of tools though many times it uses tools like maven and ant.
>
> It also produces byte-code for the JVM therefore organizes things in the
> same way Java does.
>
>> I propose to have a separate pkg-clojure-maintainers project at alioth
>> and would like to volunteer to create one. What do you guys think?
>> Does it make sense to maintain a separate repository and list or
>> should this be done as part of java packaging project itself?
>
> I'm not sure about that. Closure is already maintained by the Debian
> Java team, as far as I can see. It's really hard to tell if it's
> reasonable to have a different group working on that. From a packaging
> perspective, I think it is very much like Java, and the same rules and
> policies apply. I terms of language, they are totally different. One can
> expect someone with experience in Java packaging fixing bugs in a
> Clojure package, but probably not to fix a bug in the code. So it seems
> to be a question of what you want to achieve in a Clojure group. I can
> see that having a different group is worthwhile, if there is close
> interaction with the Java team.

Yes, I understand what you are saying. Clojure community also use the
existing java tools like ant and maven a lot. I had been reading more
about the java packaging in debian and I guess it makes a lot of sense
not to create a separate group for this effort.

> I have to say that I came across Clojure lately and really like it,
> though I probably can't put effort into that. But it's great to see that
> there are people caring for it! So thanks for your effort, be it in a
> separate group or not! :)

Thanks. I don't know Java and Clojure is my first introduction to
anything with a J in it. I like clojure a lot and hope to use it for
some of my projects.

ramakrishnan