On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:43:03 Dave Syer wrote: > > Michael McCallum-3 wrote: > > > > just start at 2.1 and everything just works and makes sense... > > > > Sorry, not to me, and not to anyone I know who uses version ranges. The works or make sense ;-)
> OSGi version conventions always used to annoy me. Now I've found something > even worse. Why don't we just adopt the same rules - at least they are > sane, and proven in production use? I used that approach with a rather transition team of consultants for production of 9 complex deliverables of over 150 artifacts. Worked fine for us. > > If 2.0.0 is the upper exclusive bound, I definitely do not want 2.0.0-* to > be included. It's completely counter intuitive. Maybe I'm be a bit too pure with my math but when you say to but not include thats everything up to and not including... how is that not intuitive? In any case as long as [1,2) incluedes 1.1-SNAPSHOT and exlucdes 2.1-SNAPSHOT at the end of the day I will be happy... so I'll stop arguing btw: Gentoo linux solves this problem with slots [1] ... the 'pom' specifies a slot it belongs in e.g. 1, 2, 1.5 etc and things can depend on a particular slot. cheers [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap4 -- Michael McCallum Enterprise Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
