Does cljr -Sdeps work for other people?

Question

Putting the dependencies in a deps-clr.edn file works.

But not via cljr -Sdeps. E.g.: try to launch nREPL server:
$ cljr -Sdeps '{:deps {io.github.clojure/clr.tools.nrepl {:git/tag "v0.1.2-alpha2"}}}' -X clojure.tools.nrepl/start-server! Clojure core loaded in 4177 milliseconds. Starting exec/tool Clojure core loaded in 4207 milliseconds. Namespace could not be loaded: clojure.tools.nrepl

I did custom compile some things so wondering if it's just me. The README for clr.core.cli says -Sdeps is supported.

I can malform the string and seems to throw no errors, I don't think it's being processed.

Well I'll poke around and report back what I find meanwhile.

Comments

Ok I see -Sdeps is ignored if deps was already cached. Need -Sforce to re-process new -Sdeps.

But another problem, looks like the tool arguments are quoted in a broken way on Linux. Results in something like --foo --bar "--tree" "--config-data" ""{:deps {:git/sha "127273928394937"}}"" being passed on to Clojure.Main through the shell script installed here:
`~/.dotnet/tools/.store/clojure.cljr/0.1.0-alpha6/clojure.cljr/0.1.0-alpha6/tools/net8.0/any/tools/run-clojure-main.sh`

You can edit that script with an initial `echo "$@"` to see how things are misquoted.

I think solution is to not quote anything and instead escape the characters just like CIDER does. \{ \: \" also escape spaces. I assume should work on powershell too, as that's what CIDER does when it shells out that same stuff as arguments to relevant tools, how they "Jack in" dependencies.

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So looks like the double quote thing is even dependent on powershell version. "" might be treated as either " or "" depending on version.

Here are some CIDER discussions on powershell:
https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/issues/3588
https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3590#issuecomment-1832783190

Also:
https://ask.clojure.org/index.php/13496/clojure-cli-bug-on-windows
https://clojure.org/reference/clojure_cli#quoting

Well I'll try to make a PR for clr.core.cli that'll work on Linux but with good faith effort for powershell.