On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote:
> On the development environment front: Is anyone contemplating creating a > Mac OS X "Clojure in a Box"? I would be an enthusiastic user. If it could > have roughly the feature set of the old Macintosh Common Lisp IDE then I > would be ecstatic. Despite a fair amount of tinkering I don't currently have > a functional SLIME setup, and despite the nice screencasts for > Eclipse/Counterclockwise (and very nice features it seems to have -- e.g. > the namespace browser and integrated documentation... is there any > environment that has a debugging environment approximating a Lisp break > loop?) that's not really working for me yet either. (A few specifics: In > emacs, using a variety of configuration instructions and hints from the web, > I get syntax coloring and indentation but not a functional inferior Lisp > mode. Eclipse is a bit confusing to me overall, I can't seem to figure out > how to get Clojure indenting, and it seems to be re-evaluating my buffers > without me asking it to :-(. And saving an awful lot of files to its > workspace directory.) I'm not only interested in getting one of these > environments working on my own machine -- although that would be nice -- but > also in having a simple, repeatable sequence of instructions for getting the > environment running on fresh machines. This is because I teach and I may > want to use this on classroom machines, student machines, etc., with > students who have various levels of expertise. Our students use all sorts of > platforms but our teaching environment is Mac OS X (with a linux cluster for > compute-intensive stuff). > I just wrote some instructions for setting up Aquamacs with Clojure here http://www.formconstant.net/diagrams/?p=54. While it's not "Clojure in a Box", it's pretty simple and really doesn't take much more than a few minutes to get through. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
