On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Tomas Pluskal <plus...@oist.jp> wrote:
> Do you plan to have both stable releases (12.2.x currently) and
> pre-releases (12.3.x currently) ?
> How would they be distinguished so that people wanting only stable
> releases will automatically get the last stable release ?
>
>
> I see two options:
>
> 1) Publish both stable and pre releases into Maven Central and rely on
> the user to pull the right version he needs. As far as I understand, it is
> not common practice to tell maven "give me the latest version", but
> normally you define the exact version number you want. Also, version ranges
> can be specified such as [12.2,12.3), meaning anything >= 12.2 and smaller
> than 12.3 (not inclusive).
> See
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution#DependencyMediationandConflictResolution-DependencyVersionRanges
>
> 2) Publish only stable releases into Maven Central, and pre-releases can
> be published into the snapshots repository
> https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/ that is not
> synchronized with Maven Central.
> That way users can still pull out the pre-release if they specify the
> snapshot repository location.
>
> The choice is up to you/up to the development team.
>
>
Ok,
I would probably take the second option, but I'm not really a Maven user.
Any opinion from people willing to use Maven and Jmol ?
Nico
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