On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:18 PM Laird Nelson <ljnel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:34 PM Manfred Moser <manf...@simpligility.com> > wrote: > > Laird Nelson wrote on 2017-03-10 13:03: > > I am also not sure I'm smart enough to grok all the implications of the > > Google-related post. That itself still does not expose an index, say, of > > the contents of all MANIFEST.MF files, right? Do I read properly that > such > > tools are in development, and to the best of everyone's knowledge an > index > > of the contents of the contents :-) of Maven central does not exist? > > Oh! I did just notice that you can search on a field called "tags" in search.maven.org. It is not immediately clear to me where the contents for this field come from. Does anyone know? For example, from just bashing around with it, I can search for everything with "compile" as the value for "tags": http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ctags%3Acompile What's even more interesting is that if I search for everything with "sbtplugin" as the value for "tags", I get some results whose artifacts do not appear to contain anything with the string "sbtplugin" in them (I opened a few jar files and checked). That suggests to me that perhaps something is deploying these and specifying the tags at deploy time? But the maven-deploy-plugin does not seem to advertise such a facility. I've found no documentation for this index field. Can someone tell me how it is populated? It seems staggeringly useful. Best, Laird
