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Leiningen (software)

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Original author(s)
  
Phil Hagelberg

Written in
  
Clojure

Developer(s)
  
Jean Niklas L'orange

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Initial release
  
November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17)

Stable release
  
2.7.1 / September 22, 2016; 5 months ago (2016-09-22)

Leiningen is a build automation and dependency management tool for the simple configuration of software projects written in the Clojure programming language.

Leiningen was originally written by Phil Hagelberg and is currently maintained by Jean Niklas L'orange. Phil started the project with the aim of simplifying the complexities of Apache Maven, while offering a way of describing the most common build requirements of Clojure projects in idiomatic Clojure. These aims are succinctly captured in the project's tag line, "Automate Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire".

Leiningen's features can be extended via a plugin system, and it is supplied with a command line interface that can initiate a number of actions, which include:

  • The generation of a simple Clojure project skeleton
  • Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation,
  • Dependency resolution (with automatic library downloading)
  • Start an interactive REPL that has the classpath correctly set to load project dependencies
  • Packaging of project code and dependencies into an 'Uberjar' .jar file

    • Leiningen is the most active open-source Clojure project and it is featured in chapter 8 of the book "Clojure Programming" .

    References

    Leiningen (software) Wikipedia
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