Does anyone see value in a wizard for lein? Does anyone know how to write a wizard, preferably with a scripting language, or xml, rather than c++? And can you alter system variables from within the wizard?
On Saturday, March 9, 2013 8:18:44 AM UTC-5, BJG145 wrote: > > As long as you have wget, that works fine. Only problem I've found so far > is that "lein new app" followed by "lein check" throws an error, but it > looks like people are on the case. > > https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/863 > > > > On Saturday, March 9, 2013 11:24:04 AM UTC, Jonathan Fischer Friberg wrote: >> >> My experience: >> >> 1. Download lein.bat >> 2. Run it >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:23 AM, BJG145 <benmag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 clo...@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+u...@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+u...@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. 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.
