Installing with Lein 2

[davejacobs]

How can I install this under Leiningen 2? I tried adding it to ~/.lein/profiles.clj and (separately) to ./project.clj as a dependency, and Lein can't find it as a task. Is Overlay Lein2-ready?

[tobias]

@davejacobs - overlay isn't a lein plugin, it's a library that is used by the lein-immutant plugin, and can also be used as a standalone project by cloning the overlay repo and running lein overlay foo bar within the checkout. Which, I just realized, looks an awful lot like a lein task provided by a plugin :)

[davejacobs]

Gotcha. Any plans to convert? (Building tasks is pretty straightforward these days.)

[tobias]

Would there be any value in making overlay a plugin? The overlay functionality is already exposed via the lein-immutant plugin: lein immutant overlay torquebox - see http://immutant.org/tutorials/overlay/.

[davejacobs]

I am only just getting into this Torquebox/Immutant world, but wouldn't the benefit be that you could overlay Immutant on an existing Torquebox installation?

[tobias]

Ah, right. I see TorqueBox/Immutant installations as fungible, so wouldn't care which one I started with. And from a functionality standpoint, you get the same result no matter which direction you overlay. That being said, if you are interested in making overlay useable as a plugin, we'll happily take a look at what you come up with.

[davejacobs]

So far, I'm just going to be using them separately, but if that changes, I'll submit a PR!