>> In short, I think that the Java and Clojure way of packaging software >> make life much easier for programmers, package maintainers, and >> administrators, not harder. Making applications self-contained helps > > I have no experience with this yet, but one reason for looking into the JVM > has been the hope for a simpler deployment scheme.
Back in the day I used to write Java code, and indeed the concept of an "uber-jar" file made things nice, but if I remember correctly jar files cannot contain native code dependencies (I could be mistaken, let me know). That was the only area where distribution is a pain with Java, damned native libraries. - Greg On Feb 8, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > On 07.02.2010, at 03:25, Constantine Vetoshev wrote: > >> I stopped using Python and Ruby and Perl partly because the packaging >> situation for all those languages is a horrible mess. For example, if > > I agree. It's not just packaging, even providing sufficiently general > installation scripts is a difficult task. Even with the help of tools like > autoconf, figuring out what is installed and what needs to be added is far > from trivial. Add to this the unfortunate but undeniable existence of > incorrect or incomplete software installations on many machines. It's a real > pain. I distribute a couple of scientific computing software packages, mostly > written in Python but all with some C code in them and some external > dependencies. A large part of technical support questions is about > installation problems. > >> In short, I think that the Java and Clojure way of packaging software >> make life much easier for programmers, package maintainers, and >> administrators, not harder. Making applications self-contained helps > > I have no experience with this yet, but one reason for looking into the JVM > has been the hope for a simpler deployment scheme. > > Konrad. > > -- > 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 -- 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
