yes, please share experience about ranges: when it is useful, how, and so on we really need to write this "Guide to using version ranges" https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1368 so we stop telling "ranges are a bad practice" but tell what they are useful for
Regards, Hervé Le samedi 29 septembre 2012 12:16:43 Michael McCallum a écrit : > 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
