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eginez / huckleberry

retrieve maven dependencies in clojurescript
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Why Huckleberry? #1

Open mikeball opened 7 years ago

mikeball commented 7 years ago

This is a very, very interesting project. May I ask the reason you're building it, and planned usage?

Edit: Ah, I just found your other project calvin, so I'm guessing it's for that. Cool! I found your project while searching and thinking about a pure cljs build tool... something BADLY needed and awesome to see someone working on one.

eginez commented 7 years ago

Yeap Calvin is one of the uses, but it goes beyond that, the clasapaptj in the jvm is pretty Static and hard to work with, once you start a jvm instance with is painful to work with it, but that's not the case with node and I think that opens opportunities

arichiardi commented 7 years ago

Given that we are kind of talking here, first of all good job, this and calvin could be the replacement of lein for node!

I haven't checked the code so I was wondering if what hackleberry does is to use the Nexus Rest API. This could be the best thing to do for consuming maven/lein/boot artifacts.

I also found this project which can be relevant.

eginez commented 7 years ago

interesting I didn't know about the nexus rest api. No HB doesn't, it basically searches for maven artifacts in two places: clojars and maven-central, and resolves dependencies manually from there. I tried to follow the work done in https://github.com/cemerick/pomegranate and https://github.com/sonatype/sonatype-aether

arichiardi commented 7 years ago

Well yes that's even better 😀 I wonder whether there is a way to be sure that what you have is the correct algorithm.

In particular we could create tests that cross check with pomegranade, embedding the logic in cljc files, data in data out.

Not that I don't trust you 😀😀😀

eginez commented 7 years ago

I can tell you I haven't ported everything, I haven't though about crosscheck, but that's an interesting idea.