The reason is that nobody (that I know, at least) uses them. The Clojure community uses leiningen, and leiningen takes care of fetching the version of Clojure a

The reason is that nobody (that I know, at least) uses them. The Clojure community uses leiningen, and leiningen takes care of fetching the version of Clojure a specific project needs. There is no point in installing one version of Clojure when the core is small enough that every project can have its own.