I’m in the process of reorganizing the code for Patterning, my Clojure library that produces (visual) patterns.
Patterning was built using Quil, which is a Clojure wrapper around Processing. But I wanted to be able to call the library directly from Processing itself (Java version).
It seemed silly to create an uberjar file containing the whole of Quil and Processing, to be called from … er … Processing, so I decided to split the project into the core (pure Clojure, no Quil or Processing dependencies) and a Quil based wrapper.
I’m also, compiling the library using ClojureScript to run in the browser. (Called from Javascript). Once again this part doesn’t want any Quil / Processing dependencies.
But I was a bit stumped with how to manage some of this. My previous experience of projects that rely on other projects (git submodules) has been somewhat painful.
But it seems the Clojure (via Java) world has actually sorted this. All I needed to do was create an account over on Clojars and type :
Including it in a new project is as simple as referencing it in the project.clj file. There’s a simple test project which combines both Patterning and Quil. And here’s the very simple project.clj file. Note the patterning dependency.
And that’s more or less it.
If you want to use Patterning in your own projects, just include it like that. If you still want to be using Quil, then use this as your example.
BTW: the new development for the core Patterning library is now at https://github.com/interstar/Patterning-Core