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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
