clj-on-windows

2023-07-18T03:46:45.495129Z

It looks like I'm going to have to stop teaching Clojure soon at my university - my morning hours have a whole new time commitment to try to fill. Because of this, the idea of an .msi installer is on my mind once again. It's been my policy to recommend all my students to use Calva's bundled Clojure runtime to execute their code and that has worked really well while I've been in a position to point them in that direction. But the path of least surprise from the perspective of my students would be a blessed-by-Cognitect msi installer and I wish that was available for them so that their first steps into Clojure could be steadier and more self-service. Please with cherries on top can Cognitect release a Clojure on Windows installer?

Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2023-07-18T13:57:11.182149Z

I'm happy to bless the MSI installer if that helps :)

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Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2023-07-18T13:57:49.216889Z

what is not blessed about it that prevents you from using it now?

2023-07-18T14:56:52.778549Z

Fair enough 🙂 I can be content with this

littleli 2023-07-18T06:12:01.266429Z

So far there are two the most convenient ways to install Clojure on Windows: • MSI installer: https://github.com/casselc/clj-msi/releases/tag/v1.11.1.1347 • Scoop installer (like brew on Mac) https://github.com/littleli/scoop-clojure Community driven and driven with commitment.