I am in complete agreement! Clojure continues to hinder itself by not providing an official executable. java -cp clojure.jar was good enough for Clojure 0.9, but that's not where it is anymore.
Even simple things like submitting bug reports would be helped by having a default "clj" executable. It would avoid a lot of questions about system configuration when reporting a bug. So many people and projects have RE-implemented a "clj" script! Seth On Mar 25, 5:32 pm, "Heinz N. Gies" <he...@licenser.net> wrote: > On Mar 25, 2010, at 19:55 , Chas Emerick wrote: > > > I published a blog post earlier today, along with a short screencast that > > might be of interest: > > > "Like any group of super-smart programmers using a relatively new language, > > a lot of folks in the Clojure community have looked at existing build tools > > (the JVM space is the relevant one here, meaning primarily Maven and Ant, > > although someone will bark if I don't mention Gradle, too), and felt a rush > > of disdain. I'd speculate that this came mostly because of XML allergies, > > but perhaps also in part because when one has a hammer as glorious as > > Clojure, it's hard to not want to use it to beat away at every problem in > > sight." > > I slowly get the feeling that build tools are too much in the focus. Why > don't we start up with a good shell integration, being able to run clj <my > script> go nice and including dependencies in jars and stuff. > > Making it easy to work with plain .clj files to include, load, run them would > get us a huge way ahead and I think kind of freeing us from what I feel as > the burden of the java world. > > Regards, > Heinz -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
