@borkdude and @chuck.cassel I was finally able to get time to try the msi installer; it was fantastic! I was able to take my students from scratch all the way up to lein uberjar in less than 45 minutes! Really really helpful

Hi all, I've mentioned some time ago about an idea I had to solve the cross platform cli arguments quoting issue. I've created a small dependencies-free prototype library called argq to demonstrate the idea. Do you think you could provide me with some critical feedback about how useful this can be or point out any potential fallacies in the design? At the very least it solves the cross platform quoting issue by taking control of argument quoting, i.e. it does not allow symbols in argq arguments that are special in some shells, these needs to be escaped using a two character code which hopefully is easy to reason and remember after some use. It uses tagged literals, which should be familiar to most Clojurians, to indicate special handling of an argument, e.g. a CLI argument of #clj/esc 100*P indicates that the argument value 100*P is escaped. The #clj/esc tag can be used to escape any argument in a cross platform way, while argq will take care to unespape the value before passing it to the program. I have tested this to work, on the Unix shell, on MS-Windows using the PowerShell module from the PS shell itself, the command prompt and the git bash shell. Here is an example from the case studies how the library can be used to escape embedded quotes in an edn string (`*Q` will be transformed to " before passed to clj):

[powershell -Command] clj -Sdeps "'#clj/esc {:deps {viebel/klipse-repl {:mvn/version *Q0.2.3*Q}}}'" -m klipse-repl.main