Hello Brian Carper at "Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:17:10 -0700 (PDT)" wrote: BC> On Mar 25, 11:55 am, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote: >> I published a blog post earlier today, along with a short screencast >> that might be of interest: >> >> "Like any group of super-smart programmers using a relatively new >> language, a lot of folks in the Clojure community have looked at >> existing build tools (the JVM space is the relevant one here, meaning >> primarily Maven and Ant, although someone will bark if I don't mention >> Gradle, too), and felt a rush of disdain. I'd speculate that this came >> mostly because of XML allergies, but perhaps also in part because when >> one has a hammer as glorious as Clojure, it's hard to not want to use >> it to beat away at every problem in sight."
BC> Ruby: gem install X BC> Perl: perl -MCPAN -e shell, then "install X" BC> Why does building and installing dependencies have to be harder than BC> this? Lein right now tries to fill this niche of being braindead easy BC> to use, and comes pretty close. I realize Maven does a lot more than BC> build and install dependencies, but for some of us, that's all we want BC> out of life, and it's pretty nice when it's that easy to do so. Maven is good because of many plugins written for it. I know some peoples who are using maven to build projects written in mix of erlang, flash, etc. I use maven to automatically generate installers using izpack plugin, for example. May be we'll need to provide better documentation for work with Clojure from maven. -- With best wishes, Alex Ott, MBA http://alexott.blogspot.com/ http://alexott.net http://alexott-ru.blogspot.com/ -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
