2012/5/30 Tommaso Teofili <[email protected]>: >> To conclude: I do not object with you suggestion. I only tried to >> point out that I believe you assumption that the parent POM will not >> change very often is not the case for a "dependency heavy" project >> like Apache Stanbol. If you do not have a problem with parent POM >> versions >20 than your proposal might still be OK. Otherwise I would >> suggest to use minor version upgrades for version changes of >> dependencies. >> > > I think that would make sense if don't change APIs, otherwise a major > version change is needed IMHO.
The parent POM does not define any API. It just configures the dependencies. So to distinguish between major.minor does not make sense here if you want to express some degree of compatibility. The next version is just different from the one before - simple counter IMHO. -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
