A parent, I thought, used to be equivalent to [], ie, hard requirement. A dependency without [] is NOT a hard requirement, simply advisory. So yeah, they're different, or were. I wonder what semantics the ranged parents behaviour has for a simple backward compatible (or not) plain version? Implicitly converted to []? In any case, you solved your issue with something that makes sense, good.
On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Thiebaud, Christophe < christophe.thieb...@sap.com> wrote: > Sorry, I strongly disagree, dependency is not optional. > > If there were not a valid, higher resolution path, the build would fail as > well. > > Regards, > Christophe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Schulte [mailto:c...@schulte.it] > Sent: Freitag, 5. August 2016 16:33 > To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org> > Subject: Re: project having a dependency with a version range fails > building when parent pom of dependency is evicted from remote repo > > Am 08/05/16 um 16:10 schrieb Thiebaud, Christophe: > > ... oh ... I was 200% sure that parent did not allow a version range ... > > Introduced in Maven 3.2.2. Broken since a few releases. Fixed in > 3.4.0-SNAPSHOT. > > > > > I tried, -> BUILD SUCCESS. > > > > Hourah, and thanks. > > > > Let see now if this option is ok with our developers. > > > > In any case, don't you think there is some valid reason to fill a jira > entry ? > > Issue is the repository being in an inconsistent state. It would not > have been possible to deploy lib-1.0-SNAPSHOT without its parent being > available in the repository. > > > I mean, iterating over a set of possible resolutions should not fail if > one of the set fails, but if no acceptable resolution is found at the end, > no ? > > > > In fact, this is what happen when the (failing) parent relationship is > replaced with a (failing as well) dependency relationship. > > What exactly do you mean with "failing as well"? There is a difference > between not finding a dependency and not finding a parent. The first is > comparable to an "optional file not found" whereas the parent is nothing > optional. > > Regards, > -- > Christian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
