Re: [ANN] Archy - a simple frontend to archetypes

2006-07-31 Thread Brett Porter
Yes (and discussion should be happening on dev@ in the mean time) On 01/08/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Very cool. Well, with that hard part done, there won't be anything from Archy worth reusing, but I'll be happy to take a stab at patching the archetype plugin when the search is r

Re: [ANN] Archy - a simple frontend to archetypes

2006-07-31 Thread Don Brown
Very cool. Well, with that hard part done, there won't be anything from Archy worth reusing, but I'll be happy to take a stab at patching the archetype plugin when the search is ready. Will it be announced on this list? Don On 7/31/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The repository ma

Re: [ANN] Archy - a simple frontend to archetypes

2006-07-31 Thread Brett Porter
The repository manager in Maven SVN indexes any repository, so it's a simple Lucene query of: "type:maven-archetype" If we put an appropriate web front end on that, you could pull down an up to date list at any time. The central repository will have that available very shortly. - Brett On 01/08

Re: [ANN] Archy - a simple frontend to archetypes

2006-07-31 Thread Don Brown
Sure, making this part of the plugin is a good idea. However, how would you retrieve a list of all archetypes in all repositories? The other part fo that is you want that list to be able to be easily changeable by anyone so that it stays up to date. If we can solve that problem, I do like the i

Re: [ANN] Archy - a simple frontend to archetypes

2006-07-30 Thread Brett Porter
Hi Don, Thanks for this. Would you consider contributing this as a patch to the archetype plugin itself? BTW, Very shortly there will be a page available that automates listing all archetypes in the repository that you will be able to use instead. - Brett On 29/07/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTEC

[ANN] Archy - a simple frontend to archetypes

2006-07-28 Thread Don Brown
In a fit of frustration trying to find a list of Maven archetypes, I threw together a little command-line frontend to Maven's archetypes that makes using them easier. Archy is a simple, command-line frontend to Maven 2's archetypes. It walks you through the process of creating a new project using