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Clj, a Clojure REPL and package management system by David Edgar Liebke

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I'd like to see something like this as part of the standard clojure distribution - i.e. something more than "Oh here are some JAR files"

Indeed, it would be great to have an official solution to this problem, as currently there are just too many ways of doing this, and that creates fragmentation and all the associated problems that come with it.

I've just started to learn Clojure and I'm still a little confused. What's Clj? Is it a yum-like tool for Clojure?

clj is much more like Ruby gems or easy_install. You get your packages installed into a global place. You don't need to define a per-project project.clj to start hacking, which is a friendlier behavior for people just getting started with Clojure.

I am installing it right now. One issue (or not): I tend to use different versions of Clojure libs for different projects, etc. and this looks like you install packages globally on your clj setup. Looks well worth checking out.

Mark, you are correct, it does install packages globally. It's designed to complement the project-oriented approach of Leiningen and Maven, not replace it.

This is pretty sweet. Just the other day I was thinking that doing this in C might be a fun way to scratch and itch and have a fast practical solution for others.

There's still room for a more comprehensive solution than either this or Lein gives. Maybe I'll have to scratch that itch if it gets to be too much.

This is certainly nice for just having a ready-made REPL with all your favorite libs already on your classpath. Kudos, David!

The launcher side has been done (very well) in C for JVM languages: http://hashdot.sourceforge.net/

Just waiting for someone to go make .debs for it!

Now with support for starting a Swank Server - http://github.com/ghoseb/clj

how does this compare to leiningen, which i believe does a lot of similar things ?

leiningen works on a project level, whereas this works on a global level.

Think rvm's gemsets vs normal rubygems behavior, if you're familiar with that eco-system.

Semi-related:

Can anyone point me towards some up-to-date documentation on Compojure? I can't seem to find any anywhere.

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