One other issue I forgot to mention, is that all of the Netbeans installs did not manage to download a copy of clojure-1.2.0 and clojure-contrib-1.2.0.
Things still seemed to work (presumably because of the Enclojure clojure install)... Could this be due to the artifact at build.clojure.org/snapshots name changing from: org/clojure/clojure/1.2.0-SNAPSHOT to: org/clojure/clojure/1.2.0-master-SNAPSHOT Does something maybe need changed in a pom.xml file? The lein commandline builds seemed to work fine. R. On 31 March 2010 01:07, Rick Moynihan <rick.moyni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Today we hosted the second weekly Clojure workshop at my office in > Dundee, Scotland. Prior to the event I thought we'd use labrepl as a > convenient way to deliver some simple tutorial/exercises along with a > working Clojure environment. > > The event was reasonably successful but there were some inevitable > installation issues with Clojure and labrepl. We had one Emacs guy > choose to use a command line install via leiningen. With a helping > hand from me, we got him up and running within a few minutes, with few > problems... The only problem he encountered (and why I stepped in) > was when he struggled a little to figure out how to install leiningen. > lein's install is easy, though punting to the lein documentation for > the leiningen install process makes it somewhat awkward to find the > install link. This could be fixed by simply including a link to the > lieningen install script from the labrepl page itself; just like is > done for Enclojure. > > This environment proved the most painless to setup, though he lacked > Emacs & Editor integration.... The reason he opted for the Command > Line install was because I urged him to avoid setting up Emacs just > now (as it can be a slippery slope... especially when dealing with > someone who already had an extensive set of Emacs customisations). I > figure he'll work this out himself in his own time. > > The remaining two users, opted for Netbeans + Enclojure, as judging by > the labrepl docs this seemed to be the easiest. The first guy had > some problems with his initial installation. Firstly nbgit threw an > error about authentication when trying to clone the git repo. This > same error was encountered by everyone running Netbeans, including > myself when I tried it out yesterday. Fortunately the guy who was > running this under OS X had already got git installed, so he managed > to clone labrepl with git, and point netbeans at the labrepl > directory... > > Unfortunately here he encountered another issue I also encountered, > which is that some versions of Netbeans don't seem to ship with maven > support built in, meaning it's not possible to open the labrepl > project under Netbeans, without installing the Maven plugin. I'm not > yet entirely sure which versions, or under what circumstances Netbeans > lacks maven support. But installing the maven plugin solved this > issue. From this point on this installation was clean sailing. > > The other issue another user at the meeting faced was that the labrepl > web pages displayed without any styling/css or code samples... Sadly > he had rebooted switching into OS X (from Windows 7) just before Rich > managed to answer my query on #clojure IRC. Though apparently Rich's > suspicions were true, and that he hadn't installed the latest > Enclojure nbm, and was still using a previous version. This said, he > claimed to run into the same problem under OS-X with a new install > (though we didn't have time to look into this further). > > Anyway, other than these installation issues (which sadly took up a > bit more time than I would have liked), labrepl was well received... > It seemed to provide a nice structure to the evening, and allowed me > to introduce an experienced O-CAML post-doc Computer Science > researcher to Clojure. Coming from no Lisp/Clojure experience he left > impressed with the language and with a desire to explore further. He > even said he was considering it for future academic work! He > particularly liked how lazy sequences were a core language property > and idiomatic. (Apparently O-CAML has lazy sequences but many API's > don't use them as they're not core). > > Anyway, I hope these third hand bug reports are relevant to further > improving the labrepl docs and installation process. > > Thanks again to Stuart Halloway for labrepl, and also to Rich, who is > still proving to be the best evangelist and ambassador for a language > one could hope for, as everyone at the event was amazed when Rich > himself helped me diagnose the cause of one of the labrepl > installation problems... cheers Rich! This kind of commitment doesn't > go unnoticed! > > -- > Rick Moynihan > http://twitter.com/RickMoynihan > http://delicious.com/InkyHarmonics > http://sourcesmouth.co.uk/ > -- Rick Moynihan http://twitter.com/RickMoynihan http://delicious.com/InkyHarmonics http://sourcesmouth.co.uk/ -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
