>>More importantly, "release-xxx" will always be considered "later" than "milestone-yyy" regardless of the values of xxx and yyy.
Wow, that was not at all clear from the documentation. And explains why my revision numbers were not being updated. Also thanks for the tip on numbering, that is a far better way to do it. Niklas Matthies-2 wrote: > > > If you really use the strings "milestone-1.1" and "release-1.1" as the > revisions, then "release-1.1" will always be considered "later" than > "milestone-1.1", because "milestone" and "release" will be compared > lexicographically by the default latest-strategy (see [1]). > > More importantly, "release-xxx" will always be considered "later" > than "milestone-yyy" regardless of the values of xxx and yyy. For > example "release-1.1" will be considered "later" than "milestone-2.0". > That's probably not what you want. One way to avoid this is to use > "1.1-milestone" and "1.1-release" instead. > > But normally one doesn't encode the status into the revision string. > Instead it's more common to have something like: > > revision status comment > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.1.1 milestone Milestone 1 of product version 1.1 > 1.1.2 milestone Milestone 2 of product version 1.1 > 1.1.3 milestone Milestone 3 of product version 1.1 > 1.1.4 release Release of product version 1.1 > 1.1.5 release Bugfix release of product version 1.1 > 1.2.1 milestone Milestone 1 of product version 1.2 > 1.2.2 milestone Milestone 2 of product version 1.2 > 1.2.3 release Release of product version 1.2 > 1.3.1 milestone Milestone 1 of product version 1.3 > > You get the idea. > > -- Niklas Matthies > > [1] > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html > > > ----- Buzzterrier http://buzzterrier.blogspot.com/ View my blog: Ordinary Average Developer... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/resolver-return-wrong-artifact-of-status-tp19909555p19925252.html Sent from the ivy-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
