Leiningen Release Plug-in

The release plug-in automatically manages your project’s version and deploys the built artifact for you.

The plug-in performs the following steps:

1. Modify the project.clj to drop the “-SNAPSHOT” suffix
2. Add the project.clj to the SCM system
3. Commit the project.clj to the SCM system
4. Tag the project with projectName-version
5. If the project jar file does not exist, it builds it with lein jar and lein pom
6. Performs a Deploy (see the Deploy section below)
7. Increments the project minor version number and re-adds the “-SNAPSHOT” suffix
8. Add the project.clj to the SCM system
9. Commit the project.clj to the SCM system

Usage

   lein plugin install lein-release/lein-release 1.0.0

   lein release

Configuration

The plug-in supports a :lein-release map in the project.clj

:scm

:lein-release {:scm :git}

This can be used to specify the SCM (version control) system. The release plug-in attempts to auto-detect the version control system by inspecting the current working directory (eg, for the .git directory). If this does not work for your project you can specify the SCM system explicitly.

:deploy-via

:lein-release {:deploy-via :clojars}

This can be used to explicitly specify the deployment strategy that will be used. The currently supported values for this are:

• :clojars
• :lein-deploy
• :lein-install
• :shell

The release plugin attempts to detect whether to use :lein-deploy or :lein-install by inspecting the project.clj. If a :repositories key is present in the project.clj :lein-deploy will be used. Otherwise :lein-install will be used. :clojars and :shell will only be used if it is explicitly specified in the project.clj.

If :shell is specified, the value of the :shell key should be an array of command line arguments, like:

:lein-release {:deploy-via :shell
                    :shell ["s3cmd" "put" "target/*.jar" "s3://blueant.com/deploy"]}

Example Configuration

(defproject org.clojars.relaynetwork/clj-avro "1.0.9-SNAPSHOT"
      :description "Avro Wrapper for Clojure"
      :dev-dependencies [[swank-clojure "1.4.2"]]
      :plugins [[lein-release "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"]]
      :lein-release {:deploy-via :clojars}
      :local-repo-classpath true
      :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
                     ;; [org.apache.avro/avro "1.5.4"]
                     [org.apache.avro/avro "1.6.1"]
                     [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
                     [org.clojars.kyleburton/clj-etl-utils        "1.0.41"]])

Deploy

The deployment strategy is determined by the following:

• if :deploy-via is specified in the configuration, its value is used
• if the project.clj has a :repositories setting, then :lein-deploy is used
• otherwise :lein-install is used

Deployment to clojars is handled by shelling out and running:

scp project-VERSION.jar pom.xml clojars@clojars.org:

Deployment via Leiningen is handled by shelling out (for a deploy or install respectively).

Supported SCM Systems

Currently only git is supported. Provisions have been made in the plug-in to support more SCM systems in the future. Patches are welcome!

Limitations

The plug-in uses simple heuristics (regexes!) to modify the version string in the project.clj. If you have multiple lines (or comments) that look like a defproject it may not be able to succeed. This approach was taken in order to not rewrite the entire project.clj file and thus loose things like formatting, indentation or comments.

Authors

Kyle Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com>
Paul Santa Clara

License

Copyright © Relay Network LLC

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.