I'm a relatively new user of Clojure and thought I'd add my perspective to the pile regarding what I would expect from a 1.0 release.
My biggest frustrations with Clojure as a newcomer were: 1. Setting it up so it was easy to use across projects 2. The API documentation While the documentation on the Clojure site made it very easy to open a REPL via a call to `java -cp ...`, it was much less clear how to make a simple command-line tool that could be run from anywhere to open a REPL, or run/compile a script. There is a bash script in clojure-contrib that does some of this and it would make sense to put this and maybe a similar Windows .BAT script in a 1.0 release. Along these line, most other languages I've used come with an optional installer for each major OS that sets up a standard operating environment including command-line tools and a library structure. Maybe Clojure 1.0 could have something similar? Compared to Javadoc documentation, I find the current Clojure API documentation a little terse and unorganised. In particular, I don't find the large table of contents bar down the side of http://clojure.org/api very useful. Some of the clojure.org pages, such as http://clojure.org/data_structures , have collections of "related functions" which I found very useful when feeling my way around the standard library. Perhaps this sort of thing could be formalised, extended and put into some easily navigable format? Though it is not as important, I've also had very good experiences with Git and GitHub after having used CVS and subversion for many years. I think the social infrastructure they created at GitHub adds a lot of value to Git as a SCM tool. I also agree with several of the other posters about a 1.0 release to coincide with Stuart's book. Regards, Mark Reid -- http://mark.reid.name --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
