cfr.
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html
If you use the "latest-revision" strategy, Ivy will consider a "dev" revision
always older than an "rc" revision.
So 1.0.1-dev999 will be older than 1.0.1-rc1.
The numeric value you can specify just defines the order.
So if in your situation a "dev" revision is more recent than an "rc" revision,
you could try the following:
<latest-strategies>
<latest-revision name="mylatest-revision" usedefaultspecialmeanings="false">
<specialMeaning name="rc" value="1"/>
<specialMeaning name="dev" value="2"/>
</latest-revision>
</late
st-strategies> Maarten
----- Original Message ----
From: "Brown, Carlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 10:25:38 PM
Subject: Special meanings latest strategy not working as expected
Could someone help me understand why a revision of 1.0.1-rc1 apparently
resolves as later than revision 1.0.1-dev9 in a non-chain filesystem
resolver? It would seem to me that any dev version should be regarded
as later than any rc.
The documentation explains the numerical mapping of the special
meanings, but doesn't say anything about the effects of these numbers.
If I know that the value of "dev" is "-1" then how am I supposed to use
this information? Does Ivy apply an offset of -1 to 1.0.0-dev3
resulting in 1.0.0-dev2? Is 1.0.0-dev2 considered earlier or later
than the -dev3? It doesn't seem clear to me; please help me understand
what I'm missing here.
Thanks,
Carlton
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