According to https://github.com/babashka/babashka#installation it seems (Linux) Brew or curl are the recommended choices.

I use brew for Ubuntu but only for Clojure tool installs -- brew is too opinionated for other stuff, IMO.

I didn’t know Brew is on non-mac platforms… thanks!

They ended up curling it but they’ll have to remember to update it.

quick reply from me - borkdude can give the "correct response" later if he wants to: 1 - you can use any babashka-dependencies directly. Here's an example from my stuff:

(require '[babashka.deps :as deps])
(deps/add-deps '{:deps {org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.3.31"}
                        eu.teod/pandoc-toolbox {:local/root "../pandoc-toolbox"}}})
(require '[babashka.cli :as cli]
         '[babashka.fs :as fs]
         '[clojure.java.shell]
         '[clojure.string :as str]
         '[clojure.edn :as edn]
         '[clojure.pprint :refer [pprint]]
         '[cheshire.core :as json]
         '[teod.pandoc-toolbox :as pandoc])

thank you, I'll try the first approach you mentioned

enlive doesn't work in bb due to the Jsoup dependency but there are pods that do work with bb for parsing HTML: the bootleg pod for example

You can specify deps as above but also in bb.edn similar to deps.edn

If Node.js is an option for you, there's also #nbb which gives access to NPM libraries. Here is an example of that: https://github.com/babashka/nbb/blob/main/examples/posthtml-parser/example.cljs

I get

Error building classpath. Manifest type not detected when finding deps for acuity/scripting in coordinate #:local{:root "/home/cokap/git/cohesic/acuity/scripting"}

we dont support local/root in bb.edn not a part of its spec.

as in look for a bb.edn when specified in a local/root

you could maybe do :paths ["other repo path"] and then you can require namespaces from that?

:local/root is supported in bb.edn but the local/root you are referring to has to have deps.edn

bb.edn dependencies are only considered for the local working directory, not for resolving other dependencies, that always goes via deps.edn

Thank you both that is clear now

I made it work, the only oddity is that the :pods declaration need to stay in the parent if I want to be able to exec :tasks

@U0C8489U6 There is ongoing work to support pod manifests in libraries so in the future I hope that will be easier (cc @U06FS3DLH)

This is expected. The clojure CLI and also babashka (via deps.clj) cache their classpath for performance/startup time reasons. These caches aren't aware of anything you delete manually from .m2

Alright, thanks for explaining that. My colleague is seeing something different, when he moves his ~/.m2 dir and runs bb -Sforce red, he gets:

...
Downloading: org/clojure/spec.alpha/0.3.218/spec.alpha-0.3.218.jar from central
Downloading: ...
Downloading: clojure-term-colors/clojure-term-colors/0.1.0/clojure-term-colors-0.1.0.jar from clojars
Error while executing task:

Would this indicate an error happening before the task is loaded? I’ll keep digging

You could maybe just put that code in a standalone script , to exclude anything task related

Perhaps something is going wrong while downloading the dependency

You could also try do to the same with JVM Clojure and see what happens

Good idea, I’ll try that out!

There's a better solution now in deps.clj which will end up in the next bb: https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/CLX41ASCS/p1666260322376039?thread_ts=1666257220.078089&cid=CLX41ASCS

Thanks a lot, that is super helpful

It ended up being a problem on my end (of course). 🙇