Hi Geoff, What path from clojure.org led you to believe that leiningen was necessary to run Clojure? I would be happy to fix the docs.
The instructions at http://clojure.org/getting_started should have you up and running with Clojure on Windows in no time. Stu On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Geoff Caplan <ghcap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the tips, Jony - I've finally made it. > > Here's the contrast between setting up Haskell and setting up Clojure: > > *HASKELL* > > 1) Go to the homepage and download the Haskell Platform as an .exe > 2) Install and use > > *CLOJURE* > > 1) Go to the homepage and discover I have to go to the Leiningen site > 2) Go the Leiningen site and get directed to the leiningen-win-installer > site > 3) Download the win-installer and discover that it's targeting an outdated > version of Leiningen, which is academic as it doesn't work anyway > 4) Go back to the Leiningen site and download the .bat file > 5) Discover that it assumes you have wget > 6) Find a Windows version of wget and put it in the path > 7) Finally get self-install to run > > No help for any of this on the Clojure or the Leiningen site. It's > relatively straightforward once you know what to do, but it's far from > straightforward to figure it out. > > Given that Windows owns almost 90% of the desktop the community must be > haemorrhaging > potential members by placing so many obstacles in the path of new users. > Millions of LAMP developers are used to coding on Windows and deploying to > *nix. Given that one of the JVM's main selling points is its cross-platform > capabilities, it just doesn't make sense that the community seems so > *nix-centric. > > If you want to promote adoption, surely you should emulate the Haskell > example and offer an up-to-date, community supported .exe install that > actually works? > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
