I've reverted to the setup that you listed, Ramakrishnan. I spent quite a few hours trying to figure out how to use ELPA + the forked slime + the new swank clojure, but failed miserably (despite the kind assistance of Phil and others on another thread).
I would agree that it would be nice to have the option of installing packages oneself, since if an automatic package management system is relied on, and it fails, it can be very difficult to figure out how to fix things. On Jan 8, 1:03 am, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't want to have to use ELPA, or maven, or some other configuration > >> management thing to get basic tools like an editing environment for the > >> language up and running. Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and use the > >> crazy configuration/package management things that the clojure community > >> seems so enamored of (ELPA, maven, leiningen, etc...), but in the way I'm > >> used to doing things, nothing more than the source code and a fairly simple > >> system definition tool (like ASDF) are enough to get things done. It's not > >> too say that there's room for improvement, but I like it when simple tools > >> get the job done and I don't need to rely on a bunch of shell scripts, to > >> have to modify classpaths, restart JVMs, etc... to get the code I want > >> loaded. Perhaps I'm just ignorant of the proper clojure-y way to do things, > >> so I'll hop off my soapbox now. > > > I think I'm pretty familiar with the Clojure-y way to do things, and I also > > close the tab when I see "... using Maven". > > I am alien to the Java world and haven't still embrased ELPA, lein and > other tools. Here is my setup which works fine for me: > > o. slime > git://git.boinkor.net/slime.git > > o. swank-clojure > git://github.com/jochu/swank-clojure.git > > o. clojure-mode > git://github.com/jochu/clojure-mode.git > > It has worked quite nicely for me until now. I also discovered the > other branch of swank-clojure, which seem to be what people are using > more. I see that it does things like downloading jars etc etc. I would > rather like it to leave them for other tools to do. I have no problem > installing emacs scripts by hand. If so, I wouldn't be using it > anyway, so I just don't see why ELPA and the other swank-clojure > branch is trying to do things that other tools are supposed to do. > > -- > Ramakrishnan
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