Hi! what’s the best way to use depstar to distribute a clojure lib that can be consumed in a maven project?

we can’t aot everything as it would compule all the dependencies as well, ideally we would like the dependencies to be downloaded by maven when the project is included in a java project

so basically something like a thin jar that contains clj and .class files 🙂

right now we are just using exclude 🙂

but it feels wrong

@jmayaalv That's a tricky use case, precisely because AOT is transitive. If I was specifically targeting Java project usage, I would write a .java API that called into Clojure via Clojure's "Java API" and ship the Clojure as source in the JAR with just that one Java class compiled -- and it would depend on Clojure itself as a library.

yes, that’s what we are now considering

but i am to stubborn

thanks a lot @seancorfield

If you AOT the .clj code, even if you exclude "everything" that isn't your own code, you still end up tying the code to a specific version of Clojure itself, which may well bite you in the future.