On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 22:56, Jim Sellers<[email protected]> wrote: > I assume that maven treats them as Strings internally, not doubles. > > Just like version 3.0-RC1 and 1.0.3-beta3 are valid versions. >
Doubles!? How would you make a double out of 2.0.0? Nonsensical. http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-pom-syntax.html Maven version numbers generally have this form: <major version>.<minor version>.<incremental version>-<qualifier> The version parts are treated as integers. Missing numeric parts are considered zero. The qualifier is compared as a string. Any version not following this syntax is treated purely as a string. I don't recall if unparseable versions always sort before or always after parseable version numbers. It's been a while since I read the code that actually takes care of this. It made me throw up a little inside. // ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
