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プロジェクトの歴史

Boot's own README describes it as both a Clojure build framework and an ad-hoc Clojure script evaluator. Instead of treating a build as a static project map, Boot evaluates Clojure scripts in a runtime environment that can add dependencies, compose tasks, and pass managed filesets between task middleware.

The public release line visible in the official GitHub releases starts with 2.0.0 prereleases in late 2014, moves through 2.0 release candidates in early 2015, and continues through the 2.7 and 2.8 series. The 2.8.3 release in April 2019 is the last stable release shown in the sampled GitHub release metadata.

採用の歴史

Boot was adopted inside the Clojure community as an alternative to Leiningen-style project configuration, especially for workflows needing composable pipelines, ClojureScript builds, REPL-driven automation, and single-file scripts. The official README lists package-manager installation paths through Homebrew, Nix, AUR, Docker, Chocolatey, and Scoop, showing that it crossed from library ecosystem tooling into OS package collections.

使われ方

Users run `boot` with tasks such as `repl`, `pom`, `jar`, and `install`, or write a `build.boot` script that composes tasks in Clojure. The wrapper script or executable is a thin launcher that downloads and runs Boot's JARs from Maven, so `boot -u` historically handled updating the runtime bits.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Boot is interesting to package nerds because it is both a package and a package bootstrapper: the installed command is a shim, while the real tool comes from Maven coordinates. It also illustrates a Clojure-era preference for programmable build logic, fileset immutability, and REPL-friendly build automation rather than declarative-only project files.

タイムライン

• 2014: Boot 2.0.0 prereleases appear on GitHub.
• 2015: Boot 2.0.0 release-candidate series continues.
• 2016: Boot 2.6.0 and 2.7.x releases published.
• 2018: Boot 2.8.0 and 2.8.x releases published.
• 2019: Boot 2.8.3 published on GitHub.

Related projects

• Related projects include Clojure itself, Maven repositories used for dependency resolution, Leiningen credentials compatibility noted in the curation data, boot-bin wrapper releases, and ClojureScript build workflows documented by the Boot project.

ソース

• https://boot-clj.github.io/
• https://github.com/boot-clj/boot#readme
• https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/releases/tag/2.0.0-pre28
• https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/releases/tag/2.8.3