Just adding my +1 - as someone relatively new to clojure, leiningen is a great way to get up and running, for a reasonably experienced developer. (It's a big improvement on when I first tried clojure a couple of years ago!) There seem to be windows instructions at https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/ as well
I don't know that Clojure really needs a "for dummies" install - it's frankly not a language for newbies. If you just want people to be able to dip their toes in the language, then http://try-clojure.org/ is a good place to go. But if you want to attract experienced developers, then I think pointing them at a build tool, especially one with as good a bootstrap mechanism as leiningen, is a great way to go. Experienced developers (who are likely to grok clojure) probably already use one of ant / rake / maven / sbt etc. Even the IDE users probably understand the need to dip into the command-line for things like building deployable artifacts. It would be nifty to have a Typesafe-style automatic installer available - but not vital; and it means you start getting locked down to a particular set of tools, which probably won't be the "right" tools for many people. (For example in my experience the Intellij Scala plugin is rather more useable than the Eclipse one, I'm not sure how having the Eclipse IDE as the "official stack" is helping the language) - Korny On 20 May 2011 07:50, pmbauer <paul.michael.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > The recommended way definitely should be one of the painless installs. >> This works: >> >> * Download NetBeans, configuring on the NB homepage for J2SE, and run >> installer.... >> > So does this: >> >> * Download Eclipse J2SE.... >> > Sure, but that's still a lot of work just to get a simple repl. > > The easiest way (by far, and it doesn't work on Windows): > $ wget https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein; lein > repl > > clojure.org and the standard distro could use a little tlc. > > -- > 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 > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com http://korny.info "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -- 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
