This was discussed briefly on the clojure dev list, but no consensus was reached. Instead, I have attached the changes that have fixed the original library and if the clojure-contrib members wish to include it (again), then it's readily available.

The original code by Sierra required 2 changes to get working. First, @ was macro-expanding to a lazy-seq, so the filtering based on list? would fail. Second, I added a check for an explicit call to (deref). Also, I re-added auto-agent namespace for compilation to build.xml.

My live changes can be found at: http://github.com/fogus/clojure-contrib/tree/auto-agent-again. The tests can be run with (run-tests 'clojure.contrib.auto-agent).

If it is merged back into the contrib master, then I would be happy to roll the tests into the test-contrib framework.

Currently using clojure.contrib.condition is awkward if you need to handle both Conditions and Exceptions. This patch by Steve Gilardi and myself allows you to include catch clauses in your handle-case forms for regular Exceptions.

Design goals

• keep key libraries in contrib, protecting provenance and license so that non-technical issues do not keep people from using code
• continue to produce a monolithic contrib build for casual/one-off application consumers
• start building individual libraries within contrib, so that larger apps can manage dependencies in a granular fashion

I propose we start with the new match (matchure) library, get feedback, and then take requests for what other libraries need to be bundled separately.

I've cleaned up the documentation and got rid of the old assert-args code from c.c.mock. The attached patches contain the two commits I made on my repository. I'm new to patches and git so let me know if I missed anything obvious!

Add the thread-safe, extensible memoize sparked from the discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/36a13d150d830683/fe6daf462d3ebfac

on clojure-contrib master:
gen-html-docs :uses c.c.def without actually using anything from it.
This causes the maven build to fail because clojure.contrib:def is not listed as a dependency in gen-html-docs' pom.xml.

Apparently, defttrace does not support functions with doc-strings. I tried replacing defn with deftrace in a function of mine (as the docs indicated) and I got the following error -

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Don't know how to create ISeq from: Symbol
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Sample code to reproduce the error - 

<pre><code>(deftrace fact
  "Calculate the factorial of x"
  [x]
  (if (< x 1)
    1
    (* x (fact (- x 1)))))

Would be great if this bug is fixed, all my functions have doc-strings

Since the April 8th commit to no longer recognize "earmuff" variables as dynamic by default, clojure-contrib/logging and clojure-contrib/trace are broken.

(defn set-system-properties
"Set some system properties. Nil clears a property."
[settings]
(doseq [[name val] settings]
(if val
(System/setProperty (name name) (name val))
(System/clearProperty (name name)))))

Somebody did a find/replace as-str -> name and created fn/variable colision with "name"

This bug does not seem to occur on my Linux box, but when run under Windows I get the following:

user> (read-json "\"C:\\Users\"")

"C:nullsers"

On Linux I get what I would expect:

user> (read-json "\"C:\\Users\"")

"C:\Users"

Build failure

ashee:clojure-contrib amitava$ mvn assembly:assembly -Dclojure.jar=/Users/amitava/opt/clojure/clojure.jar

....Lots of output elided....

Testing clojure.contrib.test-logging
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't dynamically bind non-dynamic var: clojure.contrib.logging/log-factory
at clojure.lang.Var.pushThreadBindings(Var.java:339)
at clojure.core$push_thread_bindings.invoke(core.clj:1716)
at clojure.contrib.test_logging$eval248$fn__249.invoke(test_logging.clj:19)
at clojure.test$compose_fixtures$fn_6529$fn_6530.invoke(test.clj:670)
at clojure.test$default_fixture.invoke(test.clj:663)
at clojure.test$compose_fixtures$fn__6529.invoke(test.clj:670)
at clojure.test$test_all_vars.invoke(test.clj:705)
at clojure.test$test_ns.invoke(test.clj:728)
at clojure.core$map$fn__3840.invoke(core.clj:2433)
at clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval(LazySeq.java:42)
at clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq(LazySeq.java:60)
at clojure.lang.Cons.next(Cons.java:39)
at clojure.lang.RT.boundedLength(RT.java:1607)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.applyTo(RestFn.java:130)
at clojure.core$apply.invoke(core.clj:602)
at clojure.test$run_tests.doInvoke(test.clj:743)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:408)
at user$eval488$fn__491.invoke(run-test8724407867004279179.clj:9)
at user$eval488.invoke(run-test8724407867004279179.clj:7)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6406)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.load(Compiler.java:6843)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.loadFile(Compiler.java:6804)
at clojure.main$load_script.invoke(main.clj:282)
at clojure.main$script_opt.invoke(main.clj:342)
at clojure.main$main.doInvoke(main.clj:426)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:408)
at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:401)
at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:161)
at clojure.lang.Var.applyTo(Var.java:518)
at clojure.main.main(main.java:37)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO]
[INFO] Clojure Contrib parent module ..................... SKIPPED
[INFO] def ............................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] types ............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] generic ........................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] accumulators ...................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] agent-utils ....................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] base64 ............................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] jar ............................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] classpath ......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] combinatorics ..................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] command-line ...................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] complex-numbers ................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] cond .............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] seq ............................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] condition ......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] core .............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] graph ............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] except ............................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] dataflow .......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] datalog ........................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] error-kit ......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] fcase ............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] find-namespaces ................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] fnmap ............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] prxml ............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] gen-html-docs ..................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] greatest-least .................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] import-static ..................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] java-utils ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] jmx ............................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] json .............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] lazy-seqs ......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] lazy-xml .......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] logging ........................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] macro-utils ....................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] macros ............................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] map-utils ......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] math .............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] miglayout ......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] mmap .............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] ns-utils .......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] mock .............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] monads ............................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] monadic-io-streams ................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] priority-map ...................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] stream-utils ...................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] probabilities ..................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] profile ........................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] reflect ........................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] repl-ln ........................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] repl-utils ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] server-socket ..................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] set ............................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] singleton ......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] sql ............................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] with-ns ........................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] strint ............................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] swing-utils ....................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] trace ............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] zip-filter ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] complete .......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] standalone ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Clojure Contrib ................................... FAILURE [2:34.296s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2:35.348s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Jun 01 21:48:18 EDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 10M/81M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.theoryinpractise:clojure-maven-plugin:1.3.3:test (test-clojure) on project logging: Clojure failed. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
[ERROR]
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR] mvn <goals> -rf :logging

In clojure.contrib.command-line, you could specify a 'catch-all' argument at the end of your spec and all arguments after the ones that were parsed would be collected in. In tools.cli, nothing like this seems to exist.

For example, with tools.cli, there is no way to handle stuff like this: "myapp --foo bar --baz foo a b c". The last three arguments, a, b, and c will all be discarded with no way to retrieve them.

Finally, if this wasn't the right place to put this issue, I apologize. tools.cli doesn't seem to be listed as a project and you guys don't accept issues on Github, so I wasn't sure what else to do.

I noticed that math.combinatorics isn't being built or released yet. Here is the pom file needed to get it into CI builds.

clojure.core/byte was modified a couple weeks ago as follows:

(defn byte
"Coerce to byte"
{:tag Byte
:inline (fn [x] `(. clojure.lang.RT (byteCast ~x)))}

• [^Number x] (. x (byteValue)))
  + [^Number x] (clojure.lang.RT/byteCast x))

byteValue and byteCast behave differently with values outside the
range of byte values:
user=> (. 255 (byteValue))
-1
user=> (clojure.lang.RT/byteCast 255)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Value out of range for byte: 255
(NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)

The new version breaks clojure.contrib.shell/sh's :out :bytes mode (mapping byte over values returned by InputStream.read in shell.clj, line 125).
Perhaps have sh use #(.byteValue %) instead of byte? (untested)

pprint-logical-block macro can't be used from the outside:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: var: clojure.contrib.pprint/current-level is not public

I ran into the situation where reflection in clojure.contrib.condition was taking up much more time than I would have liked it too. I added the needed type hints to avoid reflection and the changes have solved the problem for me.

I've attached the patch. It is also available on github if you prefer:

https://github.com/bmabey/clojure-contrib/commit/acf0017e4b8c4259a03fba03a90050b0e9cb0890