Choice of Maven Repository Manager and NMaven

[James Carpenter]

When using NMaven for .NET builds is there any NMaven specific reason to use one repository manager over another?

Flame bait:
I have used Artifactory and Proximity in the past.  From looking at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Repository+Manager+Feature+Matrix it seems Archiva, Artifactory, and Nexus are very close in functionality and all actively maintained.

Is there some killer feature I'm overlooking that makes one implementation far superior to the others?

[brettporter]

I think they should all behave equally WRT NMaven.

I personally work on Archiva :)

Cheers,
Brett

On 24/09/2008, at 9:27 AM, James Carpenter wrote:

> When using NMaven for .NET builds is there any NMaven specific  
> reason to use one repository manager over another?
>
> Flame bait:
> I have used Artifactory and Proximity in the past.  From looking at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Repository+Manager+Feature+Matrix 
>  it seems Archiva, Artifactory, and Nexus are very close in  
> functionality and all actively maintained.
>
> Is there some killer feature I'm overlooking that makes one  
> implementation far superior to the others?

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Brett Porter
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http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/

[Jason van Zyl-2]

Nexus is by far the easiest to setup, has the best UI, and is the most  
well maintained (look at the release history) and released most often.  
You can compare some of the features here:

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Repository+Manager+Feature+Matrix

My advice is try to install them and you'll probably decide after 10  
minutes.

The other advantage that Nexus has (which is a point that the Nexus  
team will take advantage of) is that Shane Isbell, the creator of  
NMaven, works for Sonatype who are the folks that make Nexus and  
specific .NET support is definitely on our roadmap. Nexus is also an  
extension of Proximity and if you've used that in the past we can  
easily migrate from Proximity to Nexus. We also have full-time  
developers working on Nexus which include QA and documentation staff.

Try installing Nexus (http://nexus.sonatype.org), look at the  
documentation we have (which is substantial) and do your comparison.

On 24-Sep-08, at 1:27 AM, James Carpenter wrote:

> When using NMaven for .NET builds is there any NMaven specific  
> reason to use one repository manager over another?
>
> Flame bait:
> I have used Artifactory and Proximity in the past.  From looking at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Repository+Manager+Feature+Matrix 
>  it seems Archiva, Artifactory, and Nexus are very close in  
> functionality and all actively maintained.
>
> Is there some killer feature I'm overlooking that makes one  
> implementation far superior to the others?

Thanks,

Jason

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