Perhaps this general anti-Windows attitude is what Windows-based newcomers to Clojure find off-putting...
On Saturday, March 9, 2013 3:55:59 AM UTC, James Ashley wrote: > > Since I've seen a few recent posts about this experience, I figured I'd > share mine: > > 0a) Install cygwin. I don't understand how any programmer stuck using > windows can get by without it > 1) Install the Oracle JDK > 1a) Add javac to my PATH (I added a symbolic link to javac.exe inside > cygwin in a directory that was already in my > PATH: ~/bin) > 2) Download the lein "install" script as text from the leiningen home page. > 3) Copy it over to my cygwin directory > 4) Search/replace to replace the HTML entities with the real thing. I > think this was a matter of & and > > 5) It was already executable, so just run it (naming it lein.sh rather > than lein.bat was important). I got errors about > certificates and permissions. They mentioned instructions about setting up > an environment variable (something > about something like `export DOWNLOAD="curl --trusting %1"`...that wasn't > it, but it was along the same lines). > I believe that it's some weirdness in the account settings (I have other > issues along the same lines in totally > unrelated packages), but I suppose I could have just installed some > horrible virus. Oh, well. > 6) Create a new project > 7) Change project.clj to use clojure 1.5 > 8) `lein repl` inside cygwin didn't work correctly. CLASSPATH was all > windows-style, which confused cygwin. So > basic clojure.core pieces weren't found. > 8a) I suspect I could have set up, say, powershell, to make this work. But > that's stupid, and I don't have time > to waste on it. > 9) nrepl-jack-in inside emacs worked fine. > 9a) I'm using an init.el from other systems that already have clojure set > up. But there isn't anything fancy or > special or customized about it. Just standard configuration stuff that > I've found on bare-minimal blog posts > 10) Add a symlink to lein in ~/bin. > > I guess that probably looks big and scary. Windows users are used to a > pretty GUI that they ignore and click > "Next" a lot. I dont have a lot of sympathy. > > I haven't done anything meaningful here at all. But the bare-bones part of > the installation process Just Worked. > > Thank you *so* much to all the people who have worked so hard to make this > as simple as it is! > > Respectfully, > James > > -- -- 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.
