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Content for the Gitbook version of ClojureBridge London curriculum
http://clojurebridgelondon.github.io/workshop/
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Update Clojure Homebrew setup details #25

Open practicalli-johnny opened 4 years ago

practicalli-johnny commented 4 years ago

Update development tool setup guide to use Clojure.org homebrew recipe https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started

Background Currently Homebrew will install OpenJDK 13, which is not a long term support (LTS) version of Java and will be depreciated as soon the next version is released.

Clojure is not tested on these transitory releases and is not guaranteed to work.

We should recommend avoiding Homebrew and installing openjdk manually.

Setting JAVA_HOME can help if you have an existing Java installation, but not all Java tooling will respect this environment variable or may be over-ridden by the path precedence.

See discussion https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/715900bfab494ccee4cadeea902d80ccce6e7a16 And issue https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/50536

puredanger commented 4 years ago

Note that there are no known issues with Java 13 and Clojure (or even Java 14), it's just not what is tested on our CI test matrix or officially recommended.

practicalli-johnny commented 4 years ago

We should update the development tools setup guide to recommend the Clojure.org homebrew recipe, as defined in:

https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started