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Proposal: babashka variants

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
clojure, docker

Research direction

Review the existing Clojure image variants and the tools.deps setup, then compare the two babashka-based approaches described in the issue. The work is complete when a specific variant design is chosen and its image definitions and validation approach are agreed.

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Description

enhancement question

Babashka is a pretty nifty little tool that can pretty much replace a direct installation of tools.deps with its bb clojure invocation (it will install the latest / desired version of tools.deps on demand).

It might be nice to provide clojure image variants with only babashka installed as the build-tool. Or would it be better to build these on top of the existing tools-deps images (so they already have the latest version of that pre-installed)?

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203
Forks
34
Avg merge
21m
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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