I'll know that this problem is solved when the Setup and Getting
Started sections of the main Getting Started page resemble this:
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For debian and Ubuntu users:
apt-get install clojure
For Fedora and CentOS users:
yum install clojure
For other distributions:
wget XXX.tgz
tar xvzf XXX.tgz
./XXX/install.sh
source /etc/profile
Now run the REPL:
clj
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This implies several things:
- The clojure package is in the universe or equivalent repo for
respective distros
- The clojure package is a meta-package that pulls in all the basics
needed for a useable clojure environment:
- clojure-base (or whatever it is named as long as it's not
'clojure')
- clojure-contrib
- Java
- documentation and examples
- emacs config/example/integration
- vim config/syntax highlight files, etc)
- a default repl launcher with command line history and one that
catches Ctrl-C
- Clojure is a first class citizen on the system. It is installed to
normal system locations, paths/classpaths are configured to work out
of the box, the repl launcher is in /usr/bin (or at least in the
system default path)
Until Clojure is quite popular, distributions are unlikely to spend
effort on packaging it, but Clojure won't become popular until it is
packaged well for popular distributions (this is a typical problem
actually). This means that the Clojure community will have to have
people who know and are willing to endure the tedium of distro
packaging.
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