How to package leiningen?

[winks]

The helpful folks at chocolatey.org have recommended that we can package the software -as is- up to a size of ~150MB as we are the vendor.

Right now I am just trying to get a 2.7 release out on chocolatey as there was a 2.2 on it (from 2013).

So I see three possibilities from now on:

1. continue with a PowerShell script that downloads the .bat which in turn does lein self-install
   • easiest for now, as I just adapted the code that was already there
2. package the lein.bat that comes with the release (i.e. 2.7.2 or 2.8.0) and then run lein self-install (I think I prefer this one)
   • looks like the "least deviating way" - we just ship lein.bat differently
   • a bit more work, needs downloading the new lein.bat every release
3. package lein.bat AND the jar (right now it's just under 15MB)
   • it's a proper "release" or "package" on a different channel, like a .deb
   • needs downloading the new lein.bat and .jar every release
   • would probably include a lot of binary blobs in this repo.
   • it's more work to develop (but only slightly more than 2.)
   • it's more work to maintain (but only slightly more than 2.)

[hypirion]

I think I would prefer 2. to keep the bundle smaller, but 3. is fine too (This is what we do for SDKMAN!, and seems to be a common "requirement"). If we can just invoke a script then it doesn't matter either way.