Thanks, Raul! I like your synthesis. We have already agreed to use 1.5.0-*b1* format for early access builds, but I did not see any opinions about *final* for releases. Does anyone have objections to use *final *qualifier for release builds to conform both OSGi and Maven versioning?
Sergi 2015-12-01 19:45 GMT+03:00 Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org>: > Let me synthesise: > > * 1.5.0-ea, 1.5.0 => comparison result is off in Maven, because "ea" is not > a well-known qualifier [0] to Maven, therefore it is thought higher than no > qualifier. Same goes with 1.5.0-ea, 1.5.0-final. > * 1.5.0-b1, 1.5.0 => mismatch between Maven and OSGi [1], because while > Maven treats b1 as a known qualifier, OSGi treats it lexicographically. > * 1.5.0-b1, 1.5.0-final => would work for both Maven and OSGi [2]. > > I'm in favour of the following scheme: 1.5.0-a1, 1.5.0-b2, 1.5.0-final, > 1.5.0-sp1. > > Explicitly prohibiting the following because they are previous to "final", > but they'd be considered newer by OSGi due to lexicographic evaluation: > > * 1.5.0-rc1 > * 1.5.0-m1 > > We do have an edge case with snapshot, which is older than final, but it'd > always be considered newer by OSGi. I don't think it's a big deal, though. > > With this (now well-) defined scheme, I would be happy to publish alphas, > betas and service packs to Maven Central. > > If you'd like to continue chatting, I'm in Gitter: > https://gitter.im/apacheignite/ignite. > > [0] > > https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/master/maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java > [1] https://versionatorr.appspot.com/?a=1.5.0&b=1.5.0-b1 > [2] https://versionatorr.appspot.com/?a=1.5.0-b1&b=1.5.0-final > > *Raúl Kripalani* > PMC & Committer @ Apache Ignite, Apache Camel | Integration, Big Data and > Messaging Engineer > http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sergi Vladykin <sergi.vlady...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Raul, > > > > This is how Maven works, exactly because of that we want to switch to > > 1.5.0-b1 instead of 1.5.0-ea > > > > 1.5.0 > 1.5.0-b1 > > > > Sergi > > > > 2015-12-01 19:06 GMT+03:00 Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org>: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > 1.5.0-ea > 1.5.0 > > > > > > > > > Am I the only one to whom this sounds wrong? > > > > > > *Raúl Kripalani* > > > PMC & Committer @ Apache Ignite, Apache Camel | Integration, Big Data > and > > > Messaging Engineer > > > http://about.me/raulkripalani | > http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > > > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk > > > > > >
