On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:58 AM, MC Andre <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sure that Clojure users, especially novices, would appreciate these > being listed as well-supported options on the official downloads page: > > * Windows "chocolatey install clojure" > * Mac OS X "brew install clojure" > * Ubuntu "apt-get install clojure"
Whilst this sort of advice crops up on numerous blogs, the collected wisdom seems to be "don't do that". Clojure itself is "just" a library for the JVM and should be treated the way other JVM libraries are treated. The thing that needs to be installed - if you don't want to set your hair on fire - is Leiningen. We really need the clojure.org downloads page and the clojure.org getting started page to tell people to use Leiningen and point to http://leiningen.org (NOT the Github repo like it currently does!!). clojure.org really is a disaster as far as new Clojure users are concerned, especially when you compare it to almost the official site for any other modern language... :( Getting clojure.org updated seems to be an extremely difficult process, however... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.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 --- 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.
