Installation Problem in Windows about deps-new HOT 7 CLOSED

Windows cmd.exe and Powershell use different quoting rules to Linux/macOS -- and nearly all tutorials and books for Clojure assume Linux/macOS. This is why I recommend developers use WSL2 on Windows so that all the instructions out there work as expected.

This affects all Clojure CLI usage and is not a bug in deps-new.

I don't use cmd.exe or Powershell (I use WSL2/Ubuntu on Windows and I use macOS) but I think you have to either double- or triple-quote strings for those shells?

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BTW, I had a look at the official CLI docs and it doesn't mention this issue with Windows at all, unfortunately. Not https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli#_tool_installation and not even https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli#quoting so I'm going to open an issue on the clojure-site repo about it.

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README updated here. See what you think.

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I think I'm going to update all my READMEs and point at the (new) official docs about CLI and Powershell in this section https://clojure.org/reference/deps_and_cli#quoting -- that way I'm not duplicating information and it'll help make everyone aware that the official docs cover this now.

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Thank you Sean.

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The windows way in powershell is :

clojure -Ttools install io.github.seancorfield/deps-new '{:git/tag ""v0.4.9""}' :as new

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Heya. Please can this be added to the installation instructions for new users? Unfamiliar infrastructure is already difficult without having to work out this issue on PowerShell.

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