On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Stephen Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: >> So, what is the reason to have two separate and distinct repositories for >> snapshots and for releases? > > update frequency, you may want to check snapshots with a greater or lesser > frequency than releases > > resolving ranges, ranges are only resolved from release repositories (this > is either a bug or deliberate) so if you have a repository enabled for both > releases and snapshots then any ranges for artifacts from such a repository > will resolve snapshots within the range
And, if you are lazy and dont lock down version numbers the last thing you want is to grab an potentially unstable SNAPSHOT version. Releases have more rigor around them, so its less risky to automatically grab the latest version. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
