Right, the reason is the OSGi versioning. In OSGi, 2.2-SNAPSHOT > 2.2.0, so it can cause artifacts to be badly wired against the snapshot instead of the release. So you can't really deploy snapshots and releases at the same time. On the other hand, it you build an artifact that import 2.1.99-SNAPSHOT and you need a range of up to the next minor version, it doesn't work either because the range has to be [2.1,2.2) or [2.1,2.3) which will have to be changed anyway when 2.2 is released so that it becomes [2.2,2.3). Given there are drawbacks in both, I'd have no problem to change if people think it's less confusing. The first problem may actually be less important than the second one.
In all cases, we should be consistent. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 08:47, Andreas Pieber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey christian, > > I'm also not sure for 100% but I think it has something to do with osgi > versioning (that's also the reason y felix always jumps one version); but > Guillaume can explain in detail :) > > kind regards, > andreas > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:30:43AM +0100, Christian Schneider wrote: >> Why not simply use : >> >> For a stable branch: >> 2.1.4-SNAPSHOT -> 2.1.4 -> 2.1.5-SNAPSHOT -> 2.1.5 >> >> For the develop branch: >> 2.2-SNAPSHOT -> 2.2.0 -> 2.3-SNAPSHOT -> 2.3.0 >> >> I think most projects use this scheme. >> >> Christian >> >> >> Am 07.02.2011 08:09, schrieb Andreas Pieber: >> >Hey, >> > >> >We've decided some time ago now to step from one version to the other and >> >not >> >jumping releases in between like felix does. Therefore we use quite >> >"strange" >> >snapshot versions (e.g. 2.99.99-SNAPSHOT for 3.0.0 or 2.1.99-SNAPSHOT for >> >2.2.0). But on the 2.1.x branch we use 2.1.4-SNPASHOT for 2.1.4. Well, I >> >think >> >something is wrong here :) >> > >> >IMHO we can either use 2.1.3.99-SNAPSHOT for 2.1.4 or simply switch back at >> >2.0.99-SNAPSHOT after releasing; in other words we have two options: >> > >> >2.1.3.99-SNAP -> 2.1.4 -> 2.1.4.99-SNAP -> 2.1.5 >> >2.0.99-SNAP -> 2.1.4 -> 2.0.99-SNAP -> 2.1.5 >> > >> >I slightly prefer the first method since it maps the versions we choose for >> >all >> >other snapshots but basically I'm indifferent :) >> > >> >WDYT? >> > >> >kind regards, >> >andreas >> > >> >> -- >> ---- >> http://www.liquid-reality.de >> > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
