I know that maven2 is convention over anything else... a more general but consistent versioning scheme will help people transition, and help maven packages artifacts stay consistent with upstream sources.
You could even have the release plugin map the version to the maven2 way with beta, alpha, rc and SNAPSHOT always with - prefixes in the repository. p.s. the three emails were intentional -- Michael McCallum Enterprise Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]