Boot is a build automation and dependency management tool written primarily in the

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programming language. Boot was originally written by Micha Niskin and Alan Dipert as part of the Hoplon web framework. As of May 2015, Boot is developed and released independently of Hoplon. Boot is implemented as an executable

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and a set of Clojure libraries that can be used to develop build processes programmatically. The spirit of Boot's design is captured by its tag line, "Builds are programs. Let's start treating them that way." Build tasks supported natively by Boot include compiling

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, creating .jar files, and creating

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. As a Clojure program, Boot can be extended on a per-project basis using the Clojure language. Boot's primary means of extension are ''tasks'', or functions that take and return Filesets. A Fileset is a managed, immutable representation of the filesystem and classpath that can be synchronized to disk at any point during the build. Like Leiningen, Boot supports resolving and publishing

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dependencies using the Aether library. Boot also supports: * In-process

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isolation with pods * Shebang scripts Boot is featured in Appendix B of the book "Clojure for the Brave and True".

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List of community-contributed tasks

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