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Christian Schulte commented on MNG-2199:
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Another example. Consider I have been using a parent POM containing the
following information.
{code}
<license>
<name>GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</name>
<url>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
{code}
As you may know, the content that URL points at changed from GPL 2.1 to GPL 3 a
few years ago. If I want already deployed artifacts to stay at GPL 2.1, I
cannot do anything about it. Releasing a new parent for all those artifacts
would let me deal with this. Note that for this example I would want this
feature to keep the artifacts from silently changing the referenced license
text.
Not putting that URL into the POM would have avoided the situation, of course.
You cannot predict the future, however.
> Version ranges not supported for parent artifacts
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-2199
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2199
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Inheritance and Interpolation, POM, Reactor and workspace
> Affects Versions: 2.0.3
> Reporter: Christian Schulte
> Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 3.x
>
>
> It would be great if Maven supports version ranges when specifying parent
> artifacts in a multi-module build. Currently this does not work.
> <parent>
> <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
> <groupId>groupId</groupId>
> <version>[2.0, 2.0.1]</version>
> </parent>
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/groupId/artifactId/[2.0,
> 2.0.1]/artifactId-[2.0, 2.0.1].pom
> Additionally it would be great if this
> <parent>
> <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
> <groupId>groupId</groupId>
> <version>[2.0, ${pom.version}]</version>
> </parent>
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/groupId/artifactId/[2.0,
> ${pom.version}]/artifactId-[2.0, ${pom.version}].pom
> would also work, if the version is specified in the same pom.xml which
> defines this parent definition.
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