On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:07:08 +0100, Andreas Sewe
<s...@st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
Fred Cooke wrote:
Re versions, I know the background on it, but it annoys me that maven
can't
handle 4 part versions, 1.2.3.4 as sometimes it's handy to do a patch
level
that deep. Lots of messed up software in the world :-)
The number of dots is not limited to 2 for a version. A version has some
banned characters, but that's it.
However, an ArtifactVersion[1] has some explicit/named segments (which I
personally consider a bad choice in the past). This means there can be
unexpected results when *comparing* versions.
In general you won't hit such issues as long as you don't use version
ranges.
Assuming most won't use ranges, I can only think of possible issues with
enforcer rules like requireUpperBoundDeps[2], but only when having 4 or
more segments.
thanks,
Robert
[1]
https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.5.2/maven-artifact/apidocs/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ArtifactVersion.html
[2]
https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/requireUpperBoundDeps.html
Are you sure that's still the case (the parts-restriction, not the
messiness of software ;-)?
At least the Maven Resolver uses a versioning scheme that's quite
flexible [1]. Not sure if the flexibility at this low level bubbles up
all the way to the top, though. Maybe one the Maven developers can chime
in.
Format should be N[.N as many times as needed][optional hyphen and
qualifier of some sort] or something like that. Not hard limited to 1 2
or
3 parts.
AFAICT, that's what GenericVersionScheme does.
Hope this helps,
Andreas
[1]
<https://github.com/apache/maven-resolver/blob/3fc53c052f538169cb7dc6aa9ed9052514b569ca/maven-resolver-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/aether/util/version/GenericVersionScheme.java#L31>
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