I have been using JFrog Artifactory for a while in my company. Recently I learned about JFrog Bintray. What is the difference between Artifactory and Bintray? Is Bintray a replacement for Artifactory?
Thanks for the question, it's a good one!
The main difference between artifactory and bintray is in the intended usage. Artifactory is a development-time tool, while Bintray is a release, distribution-time tool. It might look like a subtle difference, but it has a great impact on the feature set of the products:
For development, you need features like:
For distribution, you need stuff like:
As you can see, those are quite different lists.
Of course, there are common requirements:
and we have all that covered of course :)
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