brew-install

The brew-install project is used to create a brew formula for installing clojure tools on the Mac. The outputs of this project are a tar file (versioned) and a brew formula (clojure.rb), suitable for updating in the brew central tap.

The tar file contains:

• clojure-tools jar - an uberjar for constructing classpaths via tools.deps
• deps.edn - the initial user deps.edn file
• clojure script - the main Clojure runner
• clj script - a clojure wrapper for interactive repl use (adds rlwrap)

Updating versions

The clojure-tools version is defined by the pom.xml project version. It should be updated only by running script/build/update_version (the build does this automatically).

The Clojure and tools.deps.alpha versions to include in the clojure-tools are defined in the pom.xml as properties and make their way from there into all the other files via several means.

Package script

The script/package.sh script is used to build the tar file and clojure.rb file.

Release Information

These files are not released into Maven central like other libraries. Instead, the tar file is created and published to https://download.clojure.org.

The clojure.rb file is then manually updated in the brew central tap via PR.

References

See the following resources for more information:

• https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started - installation
• https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli - deps and CLI guide
• https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli - deps and CLI reference
• https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha - dependency and classpath library

Developer Information

• GitHub project
• How to contribute
• Bug Tracker

License

Copyright © 2019 Rich Hickey, Alex Miller and contributors

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0, the same as Clojure.