packr VS Nexus

Compare packr vs Nexus and see what are their differences.

packr

Packages your JAR, assets and a JVM for distribution on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (by libgdx)

Nexus

Sonatype Nexus Repository Open-source codebase mirror (by sonatype)
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packr Nexus
12 5
2,532 1,757
0.4% 2.7%
1.9 7.8
14 days ago 6 days ago
C++ Java
Apache License 2.0 Eclipse Public License 1.0
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packr

Posts with mentions or reviews of packr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.

Nexus

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nexus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
  • Did Sonatype shut down its OSS Repository Hosting (i. e. "publish my artifact to Maven Central")?
    4 projects | /r/java | 6 Jun 2023
    Users of Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS should file issues in: https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public. Please see https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public/issues/105 for more details.
  • Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, how could use my time?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2023
    Setup a caching repository proxy like nexus: https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public

    This is a little server you run locally and point your package managers like Gradle, pip, npm, etc. at it and it will grab dependencies from their upstream and cache them locally to be available offline later. Once you get it setup go wild adding every dependency you can think of using so it preloads the cache with good stuff. Unfortunately offline caching for package managers is really hit or miss and rarely a priority to support, so expect some pain getting it all setup. Good luck.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing packr and Nexus you can also consider the following projects:

Launch4j - A Maven plugin which wraps Launch4j

JitPack - Documentation and issues of https://jitpack.io

really-executable-jars-maven-plugin - maven plugin for making chmod +x jar files

IzPack - IzPack - Source Code

docker-nexus3 - Dockerized version of Nexus Repo Manager 3

Capsule - Dead-Simple Packaging and Deployment for JVM Apps

moditect - Tooling for the Java Module System