Hi folks Impressed that you've responded to my grumpy old man act so constructively - many thanks!
Stu - I was aware that I could run the REPL without Leiningen - the Minimal Install section is pretty clear. But there didn't seem much point in having Clojure without any access to the build tool and package management, so that's the way I went. I'm guessing most newbies with serious intent would be doing the same? >From what I've heard, Leiningen is more user-friendly than Haskell's Cabal, so it seems the team at Technomancy are doing a great job - it's just that this issue seems to be a bit of a blind-spot. My failure to see the errors in the shell was my bad, I guess. I'm pretty fluent in bash but have never had a need for the Windoze shell except for the odd ping and .bat file, and I'd got into the habit of running .bats by double-clicking. But there does seem to be a lack of focus and coordination on the Windows issue, and it seems unwise to assume that all Windows users are going to have the skills to work around broken scripts. As an outsider, it seems to me that the most practical next steps would be: 1) Write an idiot-proof step-by-step guide to installing Leiningen in Windows that's clearly linked from the Leiningen homepage. 2) Set up some kind of coordination between David Powell and the Leiningen team to ensure that they don't break leiningen-win-installer when they edit the .bat. (At present, David's offering curl and the .bat's expecting to find wget, which is hardly a standard feature on most Windows boxes...) Does that make any kind of sense? By the way - initial impressions are that the struggle will be well worth it - I'm really enjoying getting into Clojure. Took a look at 1.0 but decided to wait till the native libs matured. I've always felt that the benefits of OOP are over-hyped and have always been drawn to the functional paradigm but Lisp and Scheme were never very practical for me. Now we have a modern Lisp with access to a huge ecosystem - I've been waiting 20 years for this! Many thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to make this possible. Geoff -- 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.
