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A re-filing of http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=60403 in the ide subsystem, at rbalada's suggestion: This would be really, really useful for people using the NB Platform. Make an AU center that contains _all_ the modules in CVS. That way, if I want to build something on the platform, and use, say XML support, I can download the platform, connect to AU, and pull in the XML modules and anything they depend on, in order to create the basis for my module suite.
I believe that this will be solved (in a (very) similar way you described here) as part of the new apisupport. See http://apisupport.netbeans.org/new-apisupport.html, part V-b.
Same as issue #60403, no need for a separate issue report. #60403 is currently closed because there is no one available and competent to make and maintain such an AU site. I have confirmed that this is not likely to change. Sorry. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 60403 ***