The documentation said to "Create a file called `src/myplugin/profiles.clj`". This didn't work for me. I had to create a file `resources/myplugin/profiles.clj` instead.
While trying to develop a Leiningen plugin I stumbled over two small
things, which I think make other people stumble as well:
- Adding the path to my plugin's src directory to .lein-classpath
didn't help anything. Leiningen still loaded the coded that I had
installed to the Maven repository and ignored the local changes.
Putting :provided or :resolve or :classpath after the plugin
coordinates as suggested in issue #750 didn't help either. After
banging my head against this, I got the idea to remove the plugin
entry completely and it worked. Not sure if this is the intended
behaviour, though. Add a step-by-step guide to getting what you want
anyway.
- It wasn't at all clear to me how to do the subtasks thing. The
sentence about the :subtask metadata is a bit garbled and I thought
there might be a mechanisms that invokes subtasks for me. I couldn't
find anything about that, though. A quick search took me to
https://github.com/devth/lein-worker/blob/master/src/leiningen/worker.clj,
which showed the relevant bits. Add an example, because that's what
people understand.
Discussion:
- The new place of the paragraph for emitting output is not very good,
but it's better than leaving it at the bottom of the newly expanded
local development section, where nobody would see it.
- Renaming "Documentation" to "Documentation and subtasks" is a rather
thin patch. – Instructions on how to invoke subtasks don't really
belong in a section about documentation. – However, I'm too lazy to
do a lot of restructuring and I think people will still find what
they're looking for.
The help task will first look for static help under
'leiningen/help/task-subtask', then for a function name 'help-subtask' in the
subtask's namespace, then a docstring on the subtask function. For the latter
two options, the arglists are also printed.
