[armedbear-devel] Tentative inclusion of JSS with ABCL contrib

[Alessio Stalla]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
> Sick of having Clojure eat ABCL's lunch, I've decided to [start trying to
> include JSS as an ABCL contrib][1] to bring forward a more public platform
> for Java interop experiments on ANSI CL.  Or at least the example of one
> such platform.
>
> [1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/13281

Nice!


> I've gotten to the point of eliminating the use of bsh-2.0b4.jar, and most
> of INVOKE-RESTARGS without the jscheme.jar stuff.   Essentially the ABCL
> Java routines have evolved to a point that none of the external JAR
> dependencies should be necessary.  When jscheme.jar is eliminated, we will
> be able to load JSS quite comfortably from abcl-contrib.jar (even over the
> network).

What is jscheme.jar still needed for?

> With the additional syntax for ASDF, we will be able to start
> formalizing a packaging mechanism that allows us to mix Lisp/Java libraries
> in a systematic manner.

+1 for that! I'd love to have something like Leiningen for Clojure
integrated with ASDF, leveraging Maven for dependency resolution (and
only for that). e.g. (:depends-on (maven-dep "com.foo" "bar"
"1.2.3")).

Bye,
Alessio