"for OSGi qualifiers are just sorted so a qualified version is greater"
This is imho a big miss of the OSGi spec. If you search for 'semantic versioning' you stumble on to this page: http://semver.org/ Tom Preston-Werner of Gravatar/GitHub tried to standardize semantic versioning across languages and it seems like a very nice attempt. The interesting thing is that it is virtually identical to the way OSGi defines semantic versioning, except for one crucial difference... They interpret the qualifier as lowering the major.minor.micro version, just like Maven does. This makes a lot of sense. If you look at the way versioning is used throughout the industry, this most closely matches with the real-world use. The way OSGi does it is unintuitive and keeps surprising people... But yeah, it is probably not something that can ever be changed anymore within OSGi so probably we are stuck with it... For now I would advise people against using a qualifier at all. -Stijn -----Original Message----- From: Richard S. Hall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: woensdag 6 november 2013 18:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: obr:deploy and bundle versions This is a known issue between how Maven interprets the -SNAPSHOT qualifier and how OSGi interprets version qualifiers. For Maven, the -SNAPSHOT qualifier is less that the actual version specified, but for OSGi qualifiers are just sorted so a qualified version is greater (i.e., newer) than an unqualified version. -> richard On 11/6/13, 11:48 , Benoît Thiébault wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing with OSGi bundle repositories lately and noticed the > following behaviour. > > In Felix (4.0.2), after adding my OBR URL, I type "obr:deploy my-bundle". > > On the OBR, I have 2 versions available of this bundle: > - 1.0.7 > - 1.0.7-SNAPSHOT > > By default, Felix deploys the SNAPSHOT version. Is this an expected behaviour? > > I know I can force the use of a given version, but I was surprise by the > default behaviour. > > Moreover, if my-bundle depends on a "my-bundle2" bundle, that itself is > available in SNAPSHOT and final versions, the SNAPSHOT is chosen by default... > > Thanks for your help, > > Kind regards, > > Ben > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
