FYI, as far as I know, this was the first time I saw that trick/hack
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/200801.mbox/browser so if we can get Michael McCallum to tell us where he picked it up and if he has any pom.xml's in the wild that depend on the feature we may get further. 2009/9/15 Benjamin Bentmann <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > the ITs of the versions-maven-plugin employ version ranges like "[,3.0-!)". > The interesting question is how something like "3.0-!" should compare to > usual version numbers. For instance, we currently have > > Maven 2.x: > > 3.0-! < 3.0-SNAPSHOT < 3.0 > > Maven 3.x, cf. [0]: > > 3.0-SNAPSHOT < 3.0 < 3.0-! > personally, I have no strong attachment to the range ordering... but does this imply that 3.0 is now less that 3.0-classifier that would seem to be a big regression / breaking change from 2.x -Stephen > As you see, there's some disagreement about the ordering which can affect > the result of version ranges that use "3.0-!" as a boundary. > > I originally thought those strange version numbers ending in "-!" would be > limited to the plugin ITs but while talking with Stephen he mentioned he > picked this syntax from some other projects. > > So, I'm not sure how to handle this discrepancy in version ordering. Has > anybody any insight how common those -! versions really are in wild > projects? Do we need to extend the new version comparison to handle > qualifiers like "!" and some unknown set of similar ones like 2.x does or is > this an acceptable change in behavior? > > > Benjamin > > > [0] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Versioning > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
