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(link: https://sdkman.io text: SDKMAN!) is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Java and JVM based SDKs, somewhat similar to rbenv or pyenv.
I'd like to see Clojure CLI in (link: https://sdkman.io/sdks text: the supported SDKs) as it gives the alternative way to install Clojure CLI and manage versions.

The tarball https://download.clojure.org/install/clojure-tools-(link: version).tar.gz relies on {{install.sh}} to copy files and to modify clj command to have an absolute path to the jar, but SDKMAN! requires the tarball that is installable by just extracting.
Leiningen added a support while ago and (link: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/2204 text: the PR) would be helpful.

It provides (link: https://sdkman.io/vendors text: API and Gradle) plugin for SDK producers to release new versions, mark a version as the default, and broadcast new releases.

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Reference: https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/TDEPS-113 (reported by alex+import)
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Only to add more info.

I asked this in the SDKMAN Slack channel, and they explained me sort of the same the OP mentioned.

But they did gave me some more details[1] about the actual requirements:

```
@Jesús Gómez The requirements are currently not documented, but boil down to:

    * the archive when extracted should create a root folder (e.g. the mvnd archive when extracted creates a root folder named mvnd-0.0.4-darwin-amd64 )
    * directly under the extracted root folder, there needs to be a bin folder with the executable binaries
``` - Oliver Weiler

Maybe there is no need to change the original `clojure-tools-...tar.gz` and have an alternative one with these requirements (just for SDKMAN, but who knows?).

[1] https://sdkman.slack.com/archives/CJK9DMV6V/p1606295345021900?thread_ts=1606242509.021200&cid=CJK9DMV6V
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It seems there are two steps to achieving this

The archive should contain a single top-level directory like clojure-1.10.3.967, and inside there a bin directory with the executables.

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Patch welcome for the first part, interested in more details on what process is required for ongoing version maintenance for the second part
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Seems every version would require a PR like this: https://github.com/sdkman/sdkman-db-migrations/pull/539/files
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