boot-tools-deps

A Boot task that uses tools.deps(.alpha) to read in deps.edn files in the same way that the clj script uses them (almost).

Usage

You can either add this to your build.boot file's :dependencies:

[seancorfield/boot-tools-deps "0.1.4"]

and then expose the task with:

(require '[boot-tools-deps.core :refer [deps]])

or you can just add it as command line dependency:

boot -d seancorfield/boot-tools-deps:0.1.4 ...

The available arguments are:

-c --config-files -- specify the deps.edn files to be used
-A --aliases -- shorthand for specifying -R and -C with the same alias
-R --resolve-aliases -- specify the aliases for resolving dependencies
-C --classpath-aliases -- specify the aliases for classpath additions
-r --repeatable -- use only the local deps.edn file (or the -c specified files)
-v --verbose -- explain what the task is doing (this also makes tools.deps verbose)

Differences from how clj works:

The "system" deps.edn file is not read but boot-tools-deps merges in a copy taken from the clojure/brew-install repository so the effect should be the same. This means the default deps.edn information may lag behind the latest, distributed/installed version, or may be ahead of the version you actually have installed (if you have not updated clojure recently). The version of Clojure used is whatever version is running by the time this task is run -- you can only change that via BOOT_CLOJURE_VERSION or ~/.boot/boot.properties, not via deps.edn.
clj computes the full classpath and caches it in a local file. boot-tools-deps does not do this (since it does not perform the final classpath computation -- it just updates the dependencies and paths so Boot itself can deal with that).
Whatever value of :paths comes back from tools.deps is used as the :resource-paths value for Boot. Similarly, whatever value of :extra-paths comes back is used as the :source-paths value. This allows you to specify "src" and "test" (or whatever your project's equivalent are) in deps.edn, with aliases as needed, and have clj and boot deps behave in much the same way.
boot-tools-deps does not support :local dependencies (yet!).

0.1.4 -- 12/06/2017 -- Fix #3 by updating deps.edn template from brew-install (changes Clojars repo URL); fix #4 by correcting how -r and -c options affect the list of deps.edn files used; switches from HOME environment variable to user.home system property; adds -A option for when you need the same alias on both -R and -C; now relies on tools.deps.alpha.makecp loading all the specific providers (instead of loading them manually).
0.1.3 -- 11/15/2017 -- Fix #2 by using deps.edn template from brew-install repo as defaults.
0.1.2 -- 11/13/2017 -- Expose deps task machinery as a function, load-deps, for more flexibility.
0.1.1 -- 11/12/2017 -- First working version.

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License version 1.0.