in fact, the way the issue is described is misleading: "How to use 5 digit version numbers with Maven ?" and "Maven only handles 3 digit version numbers using the versions-maven-plugin"
it should be phrased: "How to use 5 digit version numbers with versions-maven-plugin?" and "versions-maven-plugin only handles 3 digit version numbers" because Maven itself has no limitation on digits: like Karl Heinz pointed out, there was a limitation in Maven 2, but it was removed in Maven 3 with https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVENOLD/Versioning and FYI, Maven itself does only comparison on versions, no updates Plugins can do a lot of different things, and multiple plugins propose to update version: the most known being maven-release-plugin (from Apache Maven team) and versions-maven-plugin (from MojoHaus team) Regards, Hervé (who worked hard a few yeas ago on removing the limitation in Maven 3 :) ) Le jeudi 7 janvier 2016 20:16:44 Karl Heinz Marbaise a écrit : > Hi, > > On 1/7/16 1:08 PM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: > > We need to use 5 digit version numbers going forward. Maven only handles > > 3 > > digit version numbers > > where is this documented ? > > which is simply not true..... > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVENOLD/Versioning > > Since Maven 3 you can use as many version numbers as you like... > > > using the versions-maven-plugin. Is there a way to use 5 digits for > > project.version ? > > > > What we want to do is use 1.2.3.4.5-SNAPSHOT vs 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT and > > 1.2.3.4.5 vs 1.2.3 after > > the release. > > You should simply use it....cause it works... > > > Furthermore if you use Maven 3.2.5+ you can check the behaviour on > command line via: (You have to change the maven-artifact-VERSION.jar > accordingly to your Maven installation) this small CLI app which is > included in your maven distribution: > > ~$ java -jar /usr/share/maven/lib/maven-artifact-3.2.5.jar > 1.0.2.5-SNAPSHOT 1.0.2.6-SNAPSHOT > Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison > result: > 1. 1.0.2.5-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.5-snapshot > 1.0.2.5-SNAPSHOT < 1.0.2.6-SNAPSHOT > 2. 1.0.2.6-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.6-snapshot > ~$ java -jar /usr/share/maven/lib/maven-artifact-3.2.5.jar > 1.0.2.5.0.0-SNAPSHOT 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT > Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison > result: > 1. 1.0.2.5.0.0-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.5-snapshot > 1.0.2.5.0.0-SNAPSHOT < 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT > 2. 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.6-snapshot > ~$ java -jar /usr/share/maven/lib/maven-artifact-3.2.5.jar > 1.0.2.5.10.0-SNAPSHOT 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT > Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison > result: > 1. 1.0.2.5.10.0-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.5.10-snapshot > 1.0.2.5.10.0-SNAPSHOT < 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT > 2. 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.6-snapshot > ~$ java -jar /usr/share/maven/lib/maven-artifact-3.2.5.jar > 1.0.2.5.100.0-SNAPSHOT 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT > Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison > result: > 1. 1.0.2.5.100.0-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.5.100-snapshot > 1.0.2.5.100.0-SNAPSHOT < 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT > 2. 1.0.2.6.0.0-SNAPSHOT == 1.0.2.6-snapshot > > > Kind regards > Karl Heinz Marbaise > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
