Alex's clojure-install work seems to offer a much simpler arrangement for project setup. A single deps.edn file can define dependencies and allow command line repl and clojure.main execution.

I presume there will be times when it is a sensible alternative to lein/boot

For the moment, cursive wouldn't support this because it doesn't know deps or source files specified in the deps.edn file.

e.g.

{:deps {org.clojure/clojure {:type :mvn :version "1.9.0-alpha20"}
        my/src {:type :file :path "src"}}}

Well, I can get the deps from the file, but IIRC the src format wasn’t actually supported (unless that’s new)

There wasn’t any way to specify source roots, at least initially.

Yeah, I didn't see that in the talk but the brew-install doc mentions a way https://github.com/clojure/brew-install/blob/master/docs/guide-clj.adoc#including-your-source-directory-into-the-classpath

Interesting, thanks, I’ll take a look.

Thanks Colin. Love your work as always.

(Seems to be the {:type :file} bit which is new)

Btw that guide is now at https://clojure.org/guides/clj

And that's newer than the ref above

The default user level deps.edn now includes a src/ root by default too

@alexmiller So I guess a dep of :type file is just a directory, and could contain compiled classes or source code, right? Is there any way to distinguish the two?