Re: update to ob-clojure.el

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Hi Greg and Oleh,

Soapy Smith <soapy-smith@comcast.net> writes:

> I'm not sure about removing nrepl and slime, as there may be some still
> using them, especially nrepl.  As long as it is not getting in the way,
> perhaps at this time it would be better to leave them in?

Agreed.

> I'm not sure
> the open-source and/or emacs-org philosophy on this kind of thing.

"If it ain't broken, don't fix it."

> Prior to updating the documentation for Clojure code blocks earlier this
> year, which was several years old, I did a lot of searching around and
> came to the conclusion that the slime and swank-clojure functionality
> was no longer being developed, and the community had moved on to nrepl.
> CIDER evolved from nrepl, and is the current direction.
>
> https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
>
> The revised documentation is very "CIDER-centric":
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-clojure.html

Yes, we shall put all efforts into supporting CIDER, and then ping the
Clojure community to know whether slime and nrepl still need to be
supported.  But for Org 8.3, let's continue to have those.

-- 
 Bastien