raxx_kit is a generator for web-applications, using Ace and Raxx.

At the moment instructions for using raxx_kit include pulling the archive from github.

$ mix archive.install https://github.com/CrowdHailer/raxx_kit/raw/master/raxx_kit.ez

This works perfectly well but it has a few, minor, downsides such as a long url and the fact the project is not discoverable on hex.pm.

I was wondering if there was anyway to pull an archive from hex. It seams like it should be easy enough to implement.

For example mix.exs could specify the path to an archive within the project.

defmodule RaxxKit.MixProject do
  use Mix.Project

  def project do
    [
      app: :raxx_kit,
      archive: "./raxx_kit.ez"
      # etc
    ]
  end
end

And then mix archive.install raxx_kit could just look for the project on hex.

Thoughts, is this possible some other way or is there a good reason this would be a bad idea?