however 2.0 and 2.0.0 are both parseable versions.

2009/6/14 B Smith-Mannschott <[email protected]>:
> 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
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