I agree with Richard, as they exist now in maven version ranges can be used very effectively. I'm happy to post example projects if you want to know how to do it.
If you want 'repeatability' then ranges might not be for you but if you want determinism and releasability then ranges are for you. Its just a matter of having good process and leveraging the tools to there greatest effect, rather than trying to make the tool perfect. On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Richard Vowles < rich...@bluetrainsoftware.com> wrote: > You may then be surprised to know that there are many of us for whom > version ranges in Maven work perfectly. Ideally Maven could be more clever > and understand that [1.6.2] is already on the local system and the metadata > checking for ranges doesn't need to be re-fetched, but that is merely an > optimisation. SNAPSHOTS work perfectly, ranges work perfectly, and SemVer > is a silly waste of space. > > Richard > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:07 AM, David Hoffer <dhoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I find this topic interesting for a couple of reasons. I was one of the > > original posters of this topic and created some of the relevant JIRA > issues > > regarding it. > > > -- > --- > Richard Vowles, > Grails, Groovy, Java > Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative - Oscar Wilde > ph: +64275467747, linkedin, twitter:richardvowles > get 2Gb shared disk space in the cloud - Dropbox, its incredibly useful! - > http://tinyurl.com/cmcceh > podcast: http://www.illegalargument.com >
