Leiningen is a
build automation
Build automation is the practice of building software systems in a relatively unattended fashion. The build is configured to run with minimized or no software developer interaction and without using a developer's personal computer. Build automati ...
and dependency management tool for the simple configuration of software projects written in the
Clojure
Clojure (, like ''closure'') is a dynamic programming language, dynamic and functional programming, functional dialect (computing), dialect of the programming language Lisp (programming language), Lisp on the Java (software platform), Java platfo ...
programming language.
Leiningen was created by Phil Hagelberg. Phil started the project with the aim of simplifying the complexities of
Apache Maven
Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages. The Maven project is hosted by The Apache Software Foundation, where it was ...
, 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 widely-contributed-to open-source Clojure project. It is featured in chapter 8 of the book ''Clojure Programming''.
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A Leiningen sting is when the table tennis ball strikes the edge of the table unexpectedly and leaves the returnee neutralised
See also
*
Boot (software)
Boot is a build automation and dependency management tool written primarily in the Clojure 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 a ...
*
Leiningen Versus the Ants
References
External links
* {{official website, http://leiningen.org/
Build automation
Software using the Eclipse Public License