What's the rationale behind the convention of including the next release
number in the snapshot version identifier? That is, why do we call a
snapshot 1.4-SNAPSHOT rather than just SNAPSHOT?
When I specify a version of a dependency, there are two possibilities:
if it's a library that I'm not in the process of modifying, I want to
use a particular, reproducible release version; if I am currently
working on it, I want to use the latest snapshot. The numbered snapshot
convention allows for these two, but also a third possibility: if
version 1.3 has been released and the latest snapshot is 1.4-SNAPSHOT,
but my pom still has a dependency on 1.3-SNAPSHOT, then I depend on
neither a reproducible release version nor the latest snapshot, but
something very arbitrary: the last snapshot that got compiled before the
1.3 release. Is that ever useful? In my experience it only happens by
accident, and it causes confusion.
The special version LATEST would do more or less what I want, but as I
understand it this functionality has been removed in maven 3. If someone
can point me to an explanation of the reason for that change, I'd
appreciate it.
-Aaron
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