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arrdem00:10:15

Kinda gives you a way to have a parameterized debug build or such.

steveb8n00:10:23

interesting idea. I guess we’ll see some best practices emerge around primary and dependent aliases

Oliver George07:10:49

This is probably a silly question. Should it be possible to clone clojure locally and use it via deps.edn via :local/root?

dominicm07:10:08

Nope! It has Java in

Oliver George07:10:07

Thanks. Not really surprised. I did get it working by building first (e.g. ant install) and pointing at the jar with

{:deps {org.clojure/clojure {:local/root "/Users/olivergeorge/repos/fork-clj/clojure/target/clojure-1.10.0-master-SNAPSHOT.jar"}}}

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Oliver George07:10:08

Was wondering more broadly how easy it was getting to tweak clojure source and see it in a REPL.

Alex Miller (Clojure team)12:10:52

I do something similar when working on Clojure

Oliver George21:10:51

Cool. Pretty productive given the clojure build process is all of 10s on a 4yo macbook