On 30 June 2010 21:14, Brian Schlining <bschlin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > May I propose as a possible remedy CLOJURE_HOME. CLOJURE_HOME is the >> > absolute path of a directory containing clojure.jar and possibly >> > clojure-contrib.jar. Scripts should check if it's defined and use it >> > instead >> > of hard-coded paths, as an example, here's my clj script (in newLISP): >> >> On the face of it this seems like a good idea, however it doesn't >> really fit with the models used by tools such as leiningen, mvn or the >> JVM. At best a CLOJURE_HOME initiative can only expect to work within >> its own world of clj scripts etc. > > I can't speak for leiningen but many (most?) launcher script in the Java > world use this as a standard convention. If you look through the launcher > scripts for maven, groovy, scala, ant, etc you will see environment > variables JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME (for Maven 2), GROOVY_HOME, SCALA_HOME and > ANT_HOME.
This is true. And I agree that where scripts are used this technique can be useful. And in this regard it's a good convention. However, I don't see it helping newcomers to Clojure significantly, as the classpath issues people face are the deeper issue. Also teaching newcomers that this is the convention isn't really true, as tools like Lieningen or maven don't really fit with this approach as they treat the clojure platform as just another library dependency. Clojure doesn't yet have a standard launch script. In the past I've argued that it'd be nice if it had one, though I now feel lein/mvn are better tools for this job. That said, having a clj launch script can be useful, and might ease the out of box experience, but again the true launcher will always be the java JVM executable, and I'm not sure this is something we should really try and hide. R. -- 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
