On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:54 PM, HerbM wrote: > As I was preparing the post a message requesting help for > an error (see below) generated when I entered the quick start > suggest, I realized that suggestion is generic, and not technically > accurate. > > java -cp clojure.jar clojure.lang.Repl > > Many people may give up without realizing that the VERSION > specific name of the clojure jar must be substituted instead.... > > java -cp clojure_1.0.0.jar clojure.lang.Repl > > While this is entirely obvious once it has been noticed even > once, I figured posting it might help someone else and might > suggest editing the "QuickStart" page recommendation.
Good catch! Thank you for pointing this out. The quick start suggestion given in the readme.txt is actually a common way to start Clojure. A clojure.jar file (with that exact name) is generated when you build Clojure from its sources. That file wasn't included in the 1.0.0 distribution, though. We'll need to make sure that the zip file for Clojure-1.1.0 is internally consistent and whatever instructions are included with it are up to date and work out of the box. clojure.lang.Repl is also no longer the canonical way to launch a Clojure repl. For Clojure 1.0.0, the suggestion should have been: java -cp clojure-1.0.0.jar clojure.main I hope your continued explorations of Clojure are much more fun than getting past this initial hurdle! Thanks, --Steve
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