Is there a maven way to have an artifact of version SNAPSHOT with dependencies of type SNAPSHOT that when doing a release via the maven-release-plugin can be changed to non-snapshot dependencies, in particular actually a **range** of RCs?
what I want is a POM like this ... <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version> ... <dependency> <groupId>...</groupId> <artifactId>...</artifactId> <version>2.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency> that when doing a release build with the maven-release-plugin becomes <version>1.0.0.0</version> <!-- this I control by hand when running m-release-p --> <dependency> <groupId>...</groupId> <artifactId>...</artifactId> <version>[2.1.0.0, 2.1.0.999]</version> </dependency> So the versioning scheme i'm following is that all snapshot builds of this artifact depend on a snapshot dependency version (2.1.0-SNAPSHOT in my example) but that RCs contain a fourth digit that is just an RC counter. All this because i can't redeploy a single RC 2.1.0 and the numerical quality of a fourth digit seems simpler than an "RC" qualifier which is treated lexicographically in a range and which causes a -SNAPSHOT to be deemed newer than an -RC What I'm trying to avoid is having to update all <dependency> tags to a particular RC count every time there is a new RC of the 2.1.0 dependency. This is why i use a range for all the RCs At a higher level, what I'm trying to do is simply to have snapshots depend on snapshots and RCs depend on the latest RC within a branch, not just the newest RC. Feel free to suggest a completely different (correct?) way to do this Thank you, Alejandro Endo | Software Designer/Concepteur de logiciels DISCLAIMER: Privileged and/or Confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee of this message, you may not copy, use or deliver this message to anyone. In such event, you should destroy the message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. It is understood that opinions or conclusions that do not relate to the official business of the company are neither given nor endorsed by the company. Thank You.
