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Clojure doesn't provide "clojure" executable

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From: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> stumbles.id.au>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Clojure doesn't provide "clojure" executable
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:57:39 +1000

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Hi Folks,

When I install the "clojure" package, I can't seem to just run `clojure`
and get an interpreter like I would on Debian.

My Java is a bit rusty, but I found I could get it going by installing the "icedtea" package and running:

  java -cp ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar clojure.main

or

  java -jar ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar

which is a bit of a mouthful.

Regards,
Ben

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> stumbles.id.au>
Cc: 32709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32709: Clojure doesn't provide "clojure" executable
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:15:28 +0200

Hi Ben,

> When I install the "clojure" package, I can't seem to just run `clojure`
> and get an interpreter like I would on Debian.
>
> My Java is a bit rusty, but I found I could get it going by installing the "icedtea" package and running:
>
>   java -cp ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar clojure.main
>
> or
>
>   java -jar ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar
>
> which is a bit of a mouthful.

It is, but this is what upstream tells us to run after building the
package.  Neither pom.xml (for Maven) nor build.xml (for Ant) contain
targets that generate a shell wrapper.

It looks like adding a shell wrapper is a decision that was taken by
Debian and is not what upstream does.  So this is not due to a defect in
the ant-build-system.

To address this we may want to add a wrapper in a custom build phase.

--
Ricardo

Message #13 received at 32709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> stumbles.id.au>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 32709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32709: Clojure doesn't provide "clojure" executable
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:08:47 +1100

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Thanks Ricardo,

On 14/09/18 06:15, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
>> When I install the "clojure" package, I can't seem to just run `clojure`
>> and get an interpreter like I would on Debian.
>>
>> My Java is a bit rusty, but I found I could get it going by installing the "icedtea" package and running:
>>
>>   java -cp ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar clojure.main
>>
>> or
>>
>>   java -jar ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar
>>
>> which is a bit of a mouthful.
> 
> It is, but this is what upstream tells us to run after building the
> package.  Neither pom.xml (for Maven) nor build.xml (for Ant) contain
> targets that generate a shell wrapper.
> 
> It looks like adding a shell wrapper is a decision that was taken by
> Debian and is not what upstream does.  So this is not due to a defect in
> the ant-build-system.
> 
> To address this we may want to add a wrapper in a custom build phase.

I see what you mean about Debian's approach with the wrapper.

After some investigating I see that Clojure project's current approach
is different again to Debian. Their releases eg.
https://download.clojure.org/install/clojure-tools-1.9.0.XXX.tar.gz
include scripts `clj` and `clojure` which come from
https://github.com/clojure/brew-install. These scripts use functionality
from https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/ to automatically
download any libraries you've declared a dependency on at runtime.

There will surely be a script that does this multi-repository build, but
I haven't found it yet.

Regards,
Ben

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Message #16 received at 32709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> stumbles.id.au>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 32709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32709: Clojure doesn't provide "clojure" executable
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:36:23 +1100

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On 13/12/18 14:08, Ben Sturmfels wrote:

> After some investigating I see that Clojure project's current approach
> is different again to Debian. Their releases eg.
> https://download.clojure.org/install/clojure-tools-1.9.0.XXX.tar.gz
> include scripts `clj` and `clojure` which come from
> https://github.com/clojure/brew-install. These scripts use functionality
> from https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/ to automatically
> download any libraries you've declared a dependency on at runtime.
> 
> There will surely be a script that does this multi-repository build, but
> I haven't found it yet.

Alex Miller advised that the build is run by the scripts in the
clojure/brew-install repo. It runs "script/package.sh".

Regards,
Ben

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Message #23 received at 32709-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> sturm.com.au>
To: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> stumbles.id.au>
Cc: 32709-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32709: Clojure doesn't provide "clojure" executable
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:22:53 +1100

Jesse Gibbons has recently added the "clojure" executable wrapper. This
makes the Guix `clojure` behave similarly to the Debian `clojure`.
Closing this issue.

(Note that this behaviour is still a little different to the bundle
provided by the upstream Clojure project which include custom `clj` and
`clojure` scripts from https://github.com/clojure/brew-install, which
include auto-downloading of dependencies and such.)

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