In some situations the usage is automatic, e.g. a plugin downloads a project from the repo to use as it's plugin-test. In other situations the usage is manual e.g. where a user downloads a source project to use as an example.
In this latter case, I think your mavenzilla idea is far superior. Some graphical mechanism to locate and download source projects seems far better than a command line (for users at least).
another useful feature might be a list of known repos and mirrors also the groupIds that are maintained at each repo.
A feature to maintain your local list of repos from within mavenzilla could also be good.
Moritz Petersen wrote:
Mavenzilla is a browser for Maven repositories.
http://jface.sourceforge.net/mavenzilla/
To be honest: it is currently in a very early development stage, and more a prototype than a real application. The question is: is a repository browser neccessary / useful, or am I missing a point with Maven? Often, I browse the ibiblio repository, to take a look at the latest version of a dependency. I would be interested to know the experiences / practices of other users when working with maven. How do you determine the version you will use in your project?
Thank you,
Moritz.
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