We could, but the benefits do not seem worth the effort to me.

On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 12:33:41 AM UTC-5, Jakub Holy wrote:
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> Thank you, Alex. I understand and agree with the importance of publishing 
> to Maven Central but my question is why can't we publish *also* to Clojars? 
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> 11. mai 2015 07:19 skrev "Alex Miller" <al...@puredanger.com <javascript:>
> >:
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>> As usual, the answer is a combination of technical goals intertwined with 
>> history. Stuart Sierra is probably the one with the most knowledge of the 
>> history - it predates my involvement with Clojure in a deep way. Best link 
>> I see is: http://dev.clojure.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=950842. In 
>> summary, it was of primary importance to be available to the broader Java 
>> ecosystem and Maven central was already blessed and understood by that 
>> audience.
>>
>> This is also from a time when builds based on Maven, Ant, Gradle, etc 
>> were more common than the relatively new and less-featured Leiningen. Those 
>> tools already understood Maven Central but had to be configured to use 
>> Clojars. I'm unsure of the exact timeline, but I'm pretty sure Clojars 
>> predated Leiningen by a year or two.
>>
>> On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 5:43:47 AM UTC-5, Jakub Holy wrote:
>>>
>>> This is essentially a question to Cognitect / developers of 
>>> the clojure/* libraries but I do not know of a better communication channel 
>>> than this one.
>>>
>>> To me, clojars is the one place to go to find out what libraries are 
>>> there and especially what is the latest version. It always surprises me 
>>> that some core libraries such as .e.g clojure.data.cvs aren't there. It is 
>>> annoying and difficult to remember that I have to search both clojars and 
>>> Maven Central. I think it would be really wonderful if these libraries too 
>>> could be on clojars. Or is there any reason why this cannot be the case?
>>>
>>> (I know there are sites for finding libraries such as Clojure Toolbox 
>>> but that is not really what I am asking for here.)
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Best regards, Jakub Holy
>>>
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