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Build tooling for Clojure.
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Default BOOT_FILE #570

Closed zoowar closed 7 years ago

zoowar commented 7 years ago

Since the build.boot file is clojure code, consider changing the default BOOT_FILE from "build.boot" to "\<something>.clj" so that editors that select environments based on file extension can select clojure.

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seancorfield commented 7 years ago

It's not just Boot: CIDER, ProtoREPL and all sorts of other tools would need to be updated since those all look for build.boot today. In addition, for backward compatibility, Boot -- and all those other tools -- would need to support both build.boot and <something>.clj going forward. That's a big ask.

I'd also note that some editors and tooling already recognize build.boot as Clojure source code. ProtoREPL, for example, applies Clojure formatting and lets you evaluate forms from build.boot just like regular source code.

I think you might instead want to log issues against those editors and tools that do not already support build.boot today?

alandipert commented 7 years ago

build.boot is syntactically Clojure, and using a .clj extension would indeed make editing easier for most people, because they wouldn't have to configure their editor to recognize .boot files as Clojure syntax files.

But, build.boot files are not semantically Clojure files, because they are loaded in the boot.user, not user, namespace. Many symbols are referred into boot.user that are not referred by default into Clojure's user namespace. So, it would be disingenous to call them .clj.

We recommend users configure their editors to recognize .boot files as Clojure syntax files in their editor configuration. In the editors I'm aware of, it's not hard.