On Jun 30, 6:45 pm, Greg <g...@kinostudios.com> wrote: > It seems like a lot of n00b (and non-n00b) related problems have to do with > the location of clojure.jar and clojure-contrib.jar. People generally don't > like having to keep track of all the clojure.jars, and it would be nice if it > was easy to switch versions for scripts like clj and such. > > 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):
Sounds sensible in principle, though I think the issue for n00bs is that configuring *anything* is a barrier because even the slightest mistake in interpreting the documentation or configuring your environment is pretty painful. For n00bs, if it is much more complicated than unzipping a Clojure distribution or navigating to the right Eclipse update site then you're already going to lose a lot of people. For those of us n00bs who primarily use IDEs like myself, I'd vote for just improving the integration with the IDE's automatic management of classpaths / build paths etc. To give it credit, Counterclockwise does a decent job to get people started quickly in terms of adding the Clojure jars automatically to an Eclipse project. -- 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
