Re: Alternative download site for Clojure 1.3?

2012-03-30 Thread Chris Webster
Thanks for the advice, guys. I think it must just have been some temporary problem on the site, as I finally got it to download late last night. Now all I have to do is learn Clojure, eh? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to

Re: Alternative download site for Clojure 1.3?

2012-03-30 Thread Murphy McMahon
Learning Clojure is the fun part. Setup and maintenance of the tools is a little less fun, IMO. But where there's a will (and a connection to freenode), there's a way. On Mar 30, 2012 9:09 AM, Chris Webster cmhwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the advice, guys. I think it must just have

Re: Alternative download site for Clojure 1.3?

2012-03-30 Thread Tamreen Khan
And like Sean mentioned, using Leiningen *really* helps. Especially when you have Emacs with clojure set up as well. On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Murphy McMahon pande...@gmail.com wrote: Learning Clojure is the fun part. Setup and maintenance of the tools is a little less fun, IMO. But

Alternative download site for Clojure 1.3?

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Webster
I'm hoping to start learning Clojure (via The Joy Of Clojure book), but I'm having trouble downloading Clojure 1.3 from the http://clojure.org/downloads site. It downloads maybe 50 or 100 MB very slowly, then grinds to a halt saying the download was interrupted (on Google Chrome browser).

Re: Alternative download site for Clojure 1.3?

2012-03-29 Thread Stuart Sierra
There must be something strange going on. The Clojure 1.3 ZIP file is only 4.5 MB. The Clojure distribution is published through the public Maven repository system, which has many mirrors: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Mirrors+Repositories For example, here's one mirror of Clojure

Re: Alternative download site for Clojure 1.3?

2012-03-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Chris Webster cmhwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an alternative/mirror site for downloading Clojure, or do I just have to wait until the main site is working again? You might want to start with Leiningen since that will hide all of the classpath / dependency