On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Michal B <mibu.cloj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why does it have to be so complicated to use libraries?
I can't imagine it being much simpler than using Leiningen... > To use libraries, you need to learn how to operate half a dozen build tools Just one: Leiningen. You can learn Cake or Maven instead if you want, I guess. > and git because each library author distributes their library differently. Hmm, I haven't needed git for anything I'm not actually contributing to - with the exception of ClojureScript itself (and given the state of that, I think a "build from source" approach is acceptable for now). > Right? There is no need to start a project with a bunch of template files > and an elaborate directory structure and to start configuring dependencies > and to rely on some magic happening that makes your program run. Well, you could download JAR files and then use the java command with the appropriate classpath and other arguments to run your script... but that seems more work to me than telling Leiningen which libraries I want and then telling Leiningen to run my -main function - with Leiningen handling all of the dependencies and the classpath stuff etc. I don't think I'd choose to not use Leiningen, even on a single file project that used no additional libraries: lein new thing cd thing vi s[tab][tab][tab] ...sling together some code... ZZ lein run -m thing.core Done! (I know, the heresy of using 'vi'... :) -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- 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
