Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-11 Thread Phil Hagelberg
David Powell writes: I've made installers for clojure-based programs using InnoSetup before, and wouldn't mind doing it if people think it is a good idea. If someone contributes a wizard-builder that I can run on my Debian system, I can run it as part of the release process and store the

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-11 Thread Phil Hagelberg
Martin Jul writes: An alternative to GNU tools is to use the things that ship with Windows PowerShell and are on most developer's machines already, e.g. using the Invoke-RestMethod commandlet as an alternative to wget and curl. So the latest version of bin/lein (which will become 2.1.0)

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-10 Thread Korny Sietsma
As Jonathan Friberg says - lein.bat works fine. As Windows seems to often go hand-in-hand with intrusive proxies, you might also want to make sure you have environment variables HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY pointing to a working proxy, if necessary you can run your own proxy using cntlm :

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-10 Thread David Powell
I've made installers for clojure-based programs using InnoSetup before, and wouldn't mind doing it if people think it is a good idea. There would be a few choices around Java... a) Assume that a JDK is installed b) Check for java and direct the user to Oracle's site to download JDK 7 if it is

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:37 PM, BJG145 benmagicf...@gmail.com wrote: (...I have to say that, from reading the above, Cygwin sounds like a nighmare and I certainly won't be troubling it...! If you want Linux on a Windows machine, Virtualbox sounds like a safer bet...) Installing GOW Gnu on

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-10 Thread Martin Jul
An alternative to GNU tools is to use the things that ship with Windows PowerShell and are on most developer's machines already, e.g. using the Invoke-RestMethod commandlet as an alternative to wget and curl. I have used PowerShell to simplify ClojureScript setup on Windows without too much

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-09 Thread BJG145
Perhaps this general anti-Windows attitude is what Windows-based newcomers to Clojure find off-putting... On Saturday, March 9, 2013 3:55:59 AM UTC, James Ashley wrote: Since I've seen a few recent posts about this experience, I figured I'd share mine: 0a) Install cygwin. I don't

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-09 Thread Jonathan Fischer Friberg
My experience: 1. Download lein.bat 2. Run it Jonathan On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:23 AM, BJG145 benmagicf...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps this general anti-Windows attitude is what Windows-based newcomers to Clojure find off-putting... On Saturday, March 9, 2013 3:55:59 AM UTC, James Ashley

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-09 Thread BJG145
As long as you have wget, that works fine. Only problem I've found so far is that lein new app followed by lein check throws an error, but it looks like people are on the case. https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/863 On Saturday, March 9, 2013 11:24:04 AM UTC, Jonathan Fischer

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-09 Thread Brent Millare
Does anyone see value in a wizard for lein? Does anyone know how to write a wizard, preferably with a scripting language, or xml, rather than c++? And can you alter system variables from within the wizard? On Saturday, March 9, 2013 8:18:44 AM UTC-5, BJG145 wrote: As long as you have wget,

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-09 Thread BJG145
...I dunno. As a Windows-addict-newbie, James has a valid point when he says that Windows users expect to be able to just click next a lot, and I don't think that will get you very far with Clojure. The tools like Leiningen are pretty darn good, and not that difficult really. Simple, clear

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-09 Thread BJG145
(...I have to say that, from reading the above, Cygwin sounds like a nighmare and I certainly won't be troubling it...! If you want Linux on a Windows machine, Virtualbox sounds like a safer bet...) On Saturday, March 9, 2013 8:31:56 PM UTC, BJG145 wrote: ...I dunno. As a

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-09 Thread Phil Hagelberg
James Ashley writes: 2) Download the lein install script as text from the leiningen home page. 3) Copy it over to my cygwin directory 4) Search/replace to replace the HTML entities with the real thing. I think this was a matter of amp; and gt; Can you explain how you downloaded bin/lein

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-08 Thread George Oliver
On Friday, March 8, 2013 7:55:59 PM UTC-8, James Ashley wrote: But the bare-bones part of the installation process Just Worked. I agree, things are working well on Windows lately! It's pretty great. I've never bothered with cygwin. Some lightweight alternatives might be the bash shell