An experimental, general purpose LFE REPL
About ↟
This project has a long history of not coming into being, despite there being a need for it in the LFE community from fairly early in the language's history. The initial impetus and all subsquent community feature requests have been 100% inspired by what the larger Clojure community has in the nREPL project.
The xrepl project has as its primary mission:
To explore strange new LFE REPL use cases, to seek out new REPL features and new interactive development possibilities, to boldly go where LFE-proper hasn't gone. Yet.
Anything good that comes out of this project that may be even remotely useful to LFE itself will result in a ticket and/or a PR against the LFE repository for Robert's reading pleasure and discretionary approval.
Dev Process ↟
HIC SVNT DRACONES
This project is a work in progress -- very early stages!
There's a lot of work to be done, here -- the bits that have been written down are organised by milestone, here:
Specific tickets can be view by clicking on the milestone in question in that link. Keep an eye out for "epic" tickets, as those will provide the most context for the work being done in any given milestone.
If the above notes haven't scared you off and you would like to play (or even contribute), you can run the latest xrepl code using rebar3_lfe by doing the following:
git clone git@github.com:lfe/xrepl.gitcd xreplmkdir _checkouts && cd _checkoutsgit clone git@github.com:lfe/rebar3.gitcd rebar3 && git checkout release/0.5.xcd ../../../
At this point, you should be:
- Back in the xrepl project directory
- Have a local copy of the latest rebar3 branch
- Be using said branch when you execute
rebar3 lfe ...commands
Tests ↟
$ rebar3 as test lfe ltestUsage ↟
Assuming you've following the above steps, start up xrepl with the following:
$ rebar3 lfe xreplLicense ↟
Apache License, Version 2.0
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