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0 pointsmasklinn10y ago0 comments

> Compare how you bring up a repl: Elixir, type iex; LFE, cd into LFE dir, type ./bin/lfe.

Is that a joke?

> If you have installed LFE, then you may start the REPL from any location:

     $ lfe

what you quoted is if you're running LFE straight from the git clone[0], and noted so.

[0] because you may not want a system-wide LFE and LFE is being a nice citizen in explicitly supporting that use case.

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sjtgraham10y ago

Sadly not a joke, just me not reading properly (scanning over on my phone but no excuse!). Thanks for correcting me, I deserve the down votes for that. I fully retract and make no claims as to the devx of LFE. My feelings on Elixir remain unchanged :)

philjackson10y ago

In actual fact, the LFE installation experience was a breath of fresh air:

    $ brew install erlang
    $ git clone ...lfe.git
    $ cd lfe; make && make install

    $ lfe

I miss make.

masklinnOP10y ago

FWIW that can be further simplified to just `brew install lfe`: https://lfe.gitbooks.io/quick-start/content/1.html#1-2-1-hom...

oubiwann10y ago

Not only that, but an hour after your post, someone (burma-shave) had updated the LFE formula for v1.0 of LFE: * https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/f95c192d43d9a56bda...

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