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Just to collaborate a little bit on this point. With leiningen things are not too bad.

A typical deployment instruction file (project.clj) looks like this and with "lein deps" you're all set up in a few seconds.

(defproject leiningen "0.5.0-SNAPSHOT" :description "A build tool designed to not set your hair on fire." :url "http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.1.0"] [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.1.0"]] :dev-dependencies [[swank-clojure "1.2.1"]])

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ouch ... formatting is clearly not preserved :(

But take a look at https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen

Four spaces in front of each line will preserve formatting.

    int main(int argc, char **argv) {
        printf("whee!\n");
        return 0;
    }

    (defproject leiningen "1.5.0-RC1"
      :description "A build tool designed not to set your hair on fire."
      :url "https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen"
      :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"}
      :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
                     [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
                     [lancet "1.0.0"]
                     [jline "0.9.94"]
                     [robert/hooke "1.1.0"]
                     [org.apache.maven/maven-ant-tasks "2.0.10" :exclusions [ant]]]
      :disable-implicit-clean true
      :eval-in-leiningen true)

I am not familiar with leiningen or clojure, but it looks like you are just adding a list of requirements + version, which is exactly what you get with pip + requirements.txt file ?

I believe that's what's going on, yes. Leiningen runs on top of Maven and so it's downloading the jars you need and storing them in ~/.m2/ where they will be linked in at compile time.

A "lein uberjar" will roll your whole program up into one .jar file, ready for deployment.

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