On 15/10/09 05:45 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote:
These are very dangerous versions to suggest use of.
...but there *are* use cases for them.
These are deprecated and are only "special" versions when considering plugins... and they do not behave as you think they behave.
For what it's worth, the Sonatype Maven book says that "When you depend on a plugin *or a dependency*, you can use the version value of LATEST or RELEASE."[1] However, I'm not aware of any released version of Maven or any plugin that actually treats dependencies this way; Mercury, tested through versions-maven-plugin, doesn't appear to either. (But I'd love to be proven wrong!)
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