lein-sinker

A platform for experimenting with Leiningen and Robert Hooke. All you need is Hooke, Lein, and Sinker.

We don't know what we're doing

This part is where we tell you that we don't guarantee it works, but let us know if it doesn't. We built this to understand Leiningen's plugin system, which can be a bit obscure; consequently, we don't know if any of this is proper style.

How to build and run lein-sinker

We included the simple bash script we wrote to automate building it: leinUpdate.sh.

All it actually does is run:

1. lein pom
2. lein jar
3. lein install

This makes the pieces that Leiningen needs, and places them in Leiningen's local repository. To run it, once built, simply lein sinker in the context of a project that has [lein-sinker "0.2.0"] in :plugins in the project map. This runs the active behavior of the project; what happens when it is directly invoked. There is another set of behaviors, the automatic loading of hooks (see Robert Hooke) contained in /src/leiningen/sinker.clj's hooks function.

Leiningen's plugin documentation is essentially required reading.