Well the first thing you assume is that project pages should be giant download buttons, and therefore the exposed content in those pages is not worth reading/understanding. For instance you can find the answer to the question posed in the slide 19 in slide 7.
Just imagine if every single open source project had to explain what the PATH is, how to install curl, and so on. You (and me) will be constantly a newbie at something, and the "getting started guide" (if any) will be almost invariably incomplete. So you better practice the skill of figuring out things. That said, the wording in lein's installation instructions for Windows is improvable - it should acknowledge the fact that working with the Windows mindset can pretty much equal "clicking till it works". In particular it should leave clear that you *want* curl installed even if it isn't: On Windows most users can get the batch file. If you have wget.exe or > curl.exe already installed and in PATH, you can just run lein self-install, > *otherwise* get the standalone jar from the downloads page. If you have > Cygwin you should be able to use the shell script above rather than the > batch file. > Emphasis mine. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Jules <julesjac...@gmail.com> wrote: > vemv, here is a file describing my Clojure install experience: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ln2ek5f5n47qnl1/clojureinstall.odp > > How should I continue? And where would a beginner find that information? > > Hopefully this is taken in good humor, this is meant as an illustration > from a beginners' point of view, because undoubtedly the stupidity of a > beginner (i.e. me) is greater than any expert can imagine. Keep in mind > that once you know how to do something, doing it is easy. Driving to work > is easy, but if you are in a new city then driving from point A to point B > is hard if you don't know the way. The problem is the multitude of ways you > can go wrong. The ideal experience would be a big "download Clojure starter > kit" right on the clojure.org homepage, that would install leiningen, and > an IDE with leiningen integration, and display a quick guide how to set up > a project and run it. > > Jules > > On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:34:26 AM UTC+1, vemv wrote: >> >> If this does not work for you, you can help everyone by opening an issue >> at the Leiningen bug tracker: >> >> Make sure java and curl are correctly installed >> Run the corresponding (unix or Windows) lein install script >> Now you should be able to run lein repl, lein new, etc >> >> On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:26:15 AM UTC+1, Jules wrote: >>> >>> Sure, but you have assumed that you have a perfectly working clojure >>> environment set up. *That* is the hard part. >>> >>> On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:19:34 AM UTC+1, vemv wrote: >>>> >>>> I never tried out core.logic. This is how I just got it "installed" in >>>> less than a minute. Really no magic here: >>>> >>>> lein new foo; cd foo >>>> # google "core.logic", grab the dependencies vector >>>> ([org.clojure/core.logic >>>> "0.7.5"]), attach it to your project.clj >>>> lein repl >>>> >>>> (use 'clojure.core.logic)(run* [q] >>>> (== q true)) >>>> >>>> >>>> Same principle for practically every single Clojure lib. >>>> >>>> On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:08:18 AM UTC+1, Jules wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You are certainly not alone. Learning the language and concepts is >>>>> very easy for me, but the sysadmin stuff to get set up is so much harder. >>>>> Believe it or not, I had much more trouble with installing core.logic than >>>>> understanding it. It doesn't end either, you bump into more problems once >>>>> you try to do something interesting. Just try e.g. to call the LLVM C api >>>>> from Clojure, I have not succeeded to this day (was trying to implement a >>>>> LLVM backend for Clojurescript). You have the same problem with many open >>>>> source projects, they are simply not focused on user friendliness, it's >>>>> certainly not a Clojure specific problem. If you are on Windows the >>>>> problems are 10x worse. Compare this with e.g. Visual Studio. You install >>>>> it, and everything just works. Package manager, calling C functions, >>>>> powerful GUI libraries, IDE with debugger, syntax highlighting, >>>>> autocomplete, etc. From the first minute on you are programming rather >>>>> than >>>>> sysadmining. I wish we had the same experience for Clojure. >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:42:57 PM UTC+1, BJG145 wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Having studied Lisp decades ago I like the look of Clojure a lot. But >>>>>> as a complete newbie when it comes to modern software development, I'm >>>>>> exasperated by what strikes me as a very difficult and primitive set of >>>>>> tools to get started. I keep seeing "Leinigen, Leinigen", and the >>>>>> Leinigen >>>>>> homepage boasts that "Leinigen offers the easiest way to get started with >>>>>> Clojure", but this simply isn't true. The easiest way to get started with >>>>>> Clojure that I've come across so far is IntelliJ IDEA. If I hadn't found >>>>>> that I'd probably have given up by now. >>>>>> >>>>>> What got me back into programming recently was a Lua-based >>>>>> development environment for Android called Gideros. Lua seems popular for >>>>>> developing apps for some reason. (Cf Corona, Moia, Unity). It seems like >>>>>> quite a neat language, though I'd like to use something more Lisp-like. >>>>>> Maybe the tools are just too difficult for me at the moment, though I'll >>>>>> persevere for a bit. I'd like to achieve some simple graphics on an >>>>>> Android >>>>>> device at least. I've come across some tutorials for CLojure and jMonkey >>>>>> and I'm wondering to dive into that, though I'm still unsure whether >>>>>> OpenGL >>>>>> is the way to go for simple 2D stuff... >>>>>> >>>>> -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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