Re: update to ob-clojure.el

[Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>]

>> I've made an update to ob-clojure.el, which wasn't working for me with
>> the new cider (the required function was removed).
>>
>> I haven't looked into 'nrepl or 'slime options for evaluation, is
>> anyone using them?
>>
>> Eric, should 'nrepl option be removed as obsolete? And maybe 'slime as well?
>>
>
> 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?  I'm not sure
> the open-source and/or emacs-org philosophy on this kind of thing.
>
> 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

My point was that if even CIDER, which is a favorite method, has
bit-rotted to the point of not working, makes it a bit questionable to
try to support the other two methods.

For instance, I could not get SLIME to work with org when I tried a
year ago, so I don't know if it's working now.

And CIDER replaces nREPL, so nREPL should be dropped at some point.
On the other hand, since nREPL isn't being edited now it's unlikely to
produce the same problem as CIDER did (the function used by ob-clojure
was removed from CIDER).

regards,
Oleh