ABSOLUTELY +1 .. I've been arguing for this for a while but kept getting shot down. I'll be glad to see us make this change!
Sanjiva. On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:17 +0600, Eran Chinthaka wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a slight problem with SNAPSHOT dependencies. > > Consider the two points. > > 1. When other projects depend on SNAPSHOTs, that means they are > working against the current working head of the project. So > they do not worry abt the version of the SNAPSHOT jar they are > using. > 2. With the current state, say policy was in 0.90-SNAPSHOT state. > After the 0.9 release, policy-0.90-SNAPSHOT was not available > (which is fine), and was named to policy-0.92-SNAPSHOT.jar. > This cause problems to dependent projects. > So due to above reasons, I feel putting the version number in to the > SNAPSHOT jar is not a good idea at all. So I'd like propose not to put > the version number with any of the commons projects jars. For example, > the latest policy jar will be policy-SNAPSHOT.jar. > > What do you all think ? > > -- Chinthaka > >
