add-project-dependency does not work with boot

[mbuczko]

unfortunately this extremely useful function expects a project.clj. boot bases on build.boot where it holds all project dependencies (actually in the same way as leiningen does, so maybe it's not as hard to fix it).

would be great to have this function working, as boot gets more and more popularity nowadays :)

[expez]

None of the maintainers are boot users and due to the architecture of boot some stuff currently isn't working .e.g rename-file-or-dir and some other stuff is only working through luck when the faux classpath and the real classpath are identical (like find-usages and renaming). Until boot explicitly adds tooling support which grants access to the real files, instead of their faux classpath version, boot will always be unattractive to me.

Given all that, if you want to start adding some boot support I'll happily merge the pull requests :)

I suspect that this is real easy to fix, and a good way to get into emacs hacking!

[expez]

Do you know if alembic works with boot @mbuczko? We might be able to update build.boot but unless alembic works with boot hotloading won't work.

[alexander-yakushev]

I would be perfectly fine if clj-refactor just spitted [library "version"] at the current point if it detected it is inside *.boot file.

Right now my workflow is:

1. Go to build.boot file.
2. Execute cljr-add-dependency, select the library, glimpse at its latest version, and then C-g.
3. Write down the dependency vector manually, into the correct place in boot file.
4. Execute cljr-hotload-dependency hovering over the newly typed in vector.

[expez]

@alexander-yakushev or @mbuczko: I'd love a verification that this actually works as intended.

[alexander-yakushev]

@expez It almost works. Please see #268.

[mbuczko]

@expez just checked it out - dependencies are added to build.boot perfectly.
thanks for all the effort to make it working :)

[alexander-yakushev]

Indeed, thank you Lars!

[expez]

I just added boot support to cljr-clean-ns, cljr-update-project-dependency, cljr-update-project-dependencies and cljr-sort-project-dependencies.

[alexander-yakushev]

👍

[mbuczko]

awesome! now I feel almost like @magnars doing his magic in "parens of the dead" :)