On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Jan Rychter <j...@rychter.com> wrote: > > As a more general observation, I think that a large part of Perl's and > Python's success was a unified way of dealing with libraries. There > are certain directories where you can drop libraries and expect them to > work (be found). There is ONE way of running the VM (one script, blessed > by the language creator). Then on top of that there is CPAN, which plugs > into that, downloading dependencies and dropping libraries into those > well-known directories. It isn't perfect, but it works, and is > predictable.
One huge drawback I've found with clojure (which it doubtless inherited from Java) is that you need an actual jarfile in your classpath, not just the directory containing the jarfile. martin -- 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