clojure packaging

[Manuel Prinz]

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.

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! :)

Best regards
Manuel