[Soc-coordination] Leiningen & Clojure packaging - Report 1

[Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza]

I'm sorry, this was Report 2, not 1.


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza <
eugeniocanom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For this week we have accomplished:
>
> *Improve lein xml by using clojure.data.xml instead of printing raw xml
> strings.
> *Refactored lein_makepkg (more info [1]). Summary: Heavy modularization
> which ended up improving code readability, flexibility, and unit-testing.
> *Added support for configuration files using python's configparser.
> *Make our debhelper sequence depend on javahelper by removing duplicates
> and hooking onto javahelper[2].
> *Packaged clojure.data.xml. It's already on mentors waiting for review.
>
> *What I'm currently working on:*
> *Writing tests for the new classes.
> *Trying to see if it's necessary to implement a context manager.
>
> *What I'll be doing next week:*
> *Finish refactoring by also separating the logic that writes to templates.
> *I'm still left with improving file handling.
> *Package clojurehelper.
> *Package core.cache.
> *I also want to create more tests since some problems are not being caught.
>
> As you can see this week went as planned by report 1. I didn't expect to
> package clojure.data.xml but I think it served double purpose: Shorten the
> list of dependencies we have to package and also learn =).
>
> Please reply if you have any questions or feedback.
>
> Cheers,
> Eugenio
>
> [1]
> http://eugecm.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/new-components-hopefully-for-the-best/
> [2]https://github.com/Debian/clojurehelper/blob/master/lein2.pm
>
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