Right, current lein-win-installer works if the the user has wget installed, the logic to fallback on curl is flawed.
The newer lein.bat ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/master/bin/lein.bat) works with regard to the wget/curl fallback. but fails on self-install here. C:\Users\kij\.lein\bin>lein self-install Downloading Leiningen now... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found Failed to download https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/releases/download/2. 5.1-SNAPSHOT/leiningen-2.5.1-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar See README.md for SNAPSHOT build instructions. C:\Users\kij\.lein\bin> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:03 AM, David Powell <djpow...@djpowell.net> wrote: > oh, sorry, yeah, I meant curl :) > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Kevin Ilchmann Jørgensen < > kijm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey David, >> >> Does it really provide wget? I got an curl here. >> >> /Kevin >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:52 PM, David Powell <djpow...@djpowell.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wrote the leiningen installer for Windows. It was working. >>> It simply downloads lein.bat from Leinignen stable, and provides a >>> working wget, and configures things. >>> >>> I'm not sure what is going on, but for some reason "call" was added in >>> certain places in the bat file in 2.5.0, and this seems to have broken >>> everything? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Herwig Hochleitner < >>> hhochleit...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to chime in with my view on the experiences, that clojure and >>>> haskell provide, respectively, if only to highlight some of the upshots. >>>> >>>> Clojure has been staying very true to its perception as a "hosted >>>> language". This caters to my needs very well, because I've found in every >>>> real project, that I eventually had to take control of the enviroment, that >>>> my programs run in. >>>> Of course, this also means that during setup, I tend to get exposure to >>>> intermediate steps, configuration choices and possibly confusing initial >>>> results. >>>> Leiningen does an amazing job at providing a stable, well defaulted, >>>> yet configurable (dare I say 'canonical') platform to host clojure in >>>> (unless it fails during bootstrap ;-) and it's a testament to the aptitude >>>> of its maintainers, as well as clojure's, that it's possible to maintain >>>> leiningen in this quality with such loose coupling to clojure itself _and_ >>>> such minimal breakage during updates. >>>> >>>> I think the philosophy of haskell is not that different. It has been >>>> self-hosted for some time, but it's core is also very transparent and >>>> clean. >>>> Coming from clojure, I circumvented haskell-platform (also due to its >>>> outdated packages at the time) and jumped straight to developing with >>>> cabal, leiningen-style. An experience, that made me ever so slightly more >>>> grateful for leiningen and by extension, maven. >>>> Haskell Platform sure is a very comforting one-click solution to get >>>> set up and it has this "officially sanctioned" flavor to it. 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