isabella232 / lein-step-parent

Temporary replacement for lein-parent until Cursive support is fixed

lein-step-parent

NOTE: If you are using Cursive, you need at least version 1.4.0-eap2-15 in order for this plugin to work!

What is this?

It's a leiningen plugin. It's a hacky knock-off of lein-parent, with fewer features.

Sounds dumb. Why?

There are some capabilities of lein 2.7.1 and lein-parent that do not yet work properly in the IntelliJ Cursive Clojure plugin (as of version 1.4.0-eap2-15). If you try to load a project that uses lein-parent via the :coords mechanism for specifying the parent artifact coordinates, Cursive will throw an error and fail to load the project.

This plugin will handle parent :coords properly both on the CLI and in IntelliJ.

Why not just stick with this one forever, then?

Because it only supports a small, targeted subset of the capabilities of lein-parent.

What does it support?

It only supports inheriting the :managed-dependencies section from the parent project - no other keys. And if you do anything fancy in your parent project (fancy macros, lein profiles, etc.), it may just not work at all. So don't do anything fancy for now.

Blergh. OK, how do I use it?

NOTE: If you are using Cursive, you need at least version 1.4.0-eap2-15 in order

for this plugin to work!

Specify your parent project configuration just like you would for lein-parent:

:parent-project {:coords [my-cool-namespace/parent "1.0.0"]
                 :inherits [:managed-dependencies]}

Then add lein-step-parent to your plugins list:

:plugins [[lein-step-parent "0.x.x"]]

Latest version is:

What happens when Cursive is fixed?

We kill this with fire, and remove all traces of it from our project.clj files.