The most promising way which should work for both Maven and OSGi is to use *beta* for EA and use *final *for releases.
http://versionatorr.appspot.com/?a=1.5.0-final&b=1.5.0-beta1 http://versionatorr.appspot.com/?a=1.5.0&b=1.5.0-beta1 Sergi 2015-12-01 18:16 GMT+03:00 Sergi Vladykin <sergi.vlady...@gmail.com>: > Dmitriy, > > Yakov just sent maven output which says that > > *1.5.0 < 1.5.0-EA1* > > *1.5.0-EA1 > 1.5.0-final* > > That's exactly what I was talking about. > > Sergi > > 2015-12-01 18:12 GMT+03:00 Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org>: > >> AFAIK, in maven you can have versions with qualifiers, like 1.5.0-ea1 and >> standard versions, like 1.5.0. >> >> According to this article [1], all the versions with a qualifier, such as >> “-ea” will be considered older than the versions without qualifiers. This >> means that 1.5.0-ea1 will be older than 1.5.0. Seems like the versioning >> scheme proposed by Yakov would work. >> >> [1] - >> >> https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/core/MAVEN/maven_version.htm#MAVEN8855 >> >> D. >> >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> > I have got the following output: >> > >> > $ java -cp maven-core-3.3.9.jar:maven-artifact-3.3.9.jar >> > org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.ComparableVersion 1.5.0 1.5.0-EA1 >> > 1.5.0-final >> > >> > Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison >> > result: >> > >> > 1. 1.5.0 == 1.5 >> > >> > 1.5.0 < 1.5.0-EA1 >> > >> > 2. 1.5.0-EA1 == 1.5-ea-1 >> > >> > 1.5.0-EA1 > 1.5.0-final >> > >> > 3. 1.5.0-final == 1.5 >> > >> > --Yakov >> > >> > 2015-12-01 18:07 GMT+03:00 Sergi Vladykin <sergi.vlady...@gmail.com>: >> > >> > > Also it is an interesting subject with respect to OSGi versioning >> because >> > > Maven and OSGi versions are >> > > somewhat conflicting as well. See [1] >> > > >> > > [1] http://versionatorr.appspot.com/?a=1.5.0-final&b=1.5.0-ea >> > > >> > > Sergi >> > > >> > > 2015-12-01 17:56 GMT+03:00 Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org>: >> > > >> > > > It is different when the keyword is part of the version >> > (1.1.1.RELEASE), >> > > > like Spring, and when it's a qualifier (1.1.1-RELEASE). >> > > > >> > > > Maven treats both cases differently. >> > > > On 1 Dec 2015 14:52, "Yakov Zhdanov" <yzhda...@apache.org> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > Sergi, very good point! Guys, it seems that EA is not a good >> choice. >> > > > > >> > > > > However, how many of you have ever used RELEASE as version in >> maven >> > or >> > > > > version range? >> > > > > >> > > > > --Yakov >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >
