Clojure 1.3 alpha release : A pom.xml to try it out with

There's a new version 1.3 of clojure in alpha release:

To try it out, install maven, create a file pom.xml as below, and then use $ mvn clojure:repl


This should start a clojure 1.3 REPL with editing and history provided by the jLine library. Have fun.

If you're already using emacs and slime, then all you have to do is $ mvn clojure:swank to start the clojure end, and M-x slime-connect to connect emacs to the running server.

If you'd like to use emacs, but don't know how to configure it to work with clojure, then there are complete instructions here, which I've just tested on a brand new account, and which still work fine. Emacs moans a bit during the install, as is its wont, but everything works nevertheless.

Only the file pom.xml needs to change to get the 1.3 alpha release working instead of 1.2 using these instructions.

Shawn comments below that this even works on Windows nowadays if you can install maven.

 If anyone else has success or trouble on any platform please comment below.

<project>

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.example</groupId>
  <artifactId>clojure-bleeding-edge</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>clojure-bleeding-edge</name>
  <description>clojure-bleeding-edge</description>


  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>central</id>
      <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
      <id>clojure</id>
      <url>http://build.clojure.org/releases</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
      <id>clojars</id>
      <url>http://clojars.org/repo/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
      <artifactId>clojure</artifactId>
      <version>1.3.0-alpha1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
      <artifactId>clojure-contrib</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>jline</groupId>
      <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
      <version>0.9.94</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>swank-clojure</groupId>
      <artifactId>swank-clojure</artifactId>
      <version>1.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.theoryinpractise</groupId>
        <artifactId>clojure-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.4</version>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  
</project>