[jira] [Commented] (MNG-7049) Version range resolution downloads all poms, not just the highest version

["Tuomas Kiviaho (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tuomas Kiviaho commented on MNG-7049:
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{quote}I am so certain that I have seen a similiar request for this, but I can't remember whether it was with Maven Core or Maven Resolver. Will keep looking{quote}

[~michael-o] Here's a link to  [MRESOLVER-133|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOLVER-133] that you probably were looking for. A CI worker without pre-populated local repository would indeed benefit from this. 

> Version range resolution downloads all poms, not just the highest version
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>
>                 Key: MNG-7049
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7049
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Moti Nisenson-Ken
>            Priority: Major
>
> When specifying a version range for a dependency, maven will download and try to resolve all poms in that range which satisfy the range. The usage however is only to use the highestVersion. This causes two issues:
>  # Performance - it's downloading numerous poms that aren't needed.
>  # Fragility - if the version range covers any "bad" poms, then the build will fail. For example, consider that for a specific version, the parent of a pom is not present in the repository. This is enough to fail any build with a version range covering that specific version, as the range resolution stage will not complete. This is particularly harmful when that version would not be selected as the highest, anyway.
> Recommend to have a system property to control the desired behavior - it should be possible to short-circuit loading all the versions and to just to load the highest version.
> For another user report of this see: [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25047859/restrict-maven-to-not-download-all-poms]
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