[GitHub] [maven] ctrueden edited a comment on pull request #121: [MNG-6206] display deprecation build warning in case when dependencies use metaversions (LATEST or RELEASE)

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ctrueden edited a comment on pull request #121:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/121#issuecomment-972108495


   @dejan2609 @khmarbaise I use LATEST and RELEASE a lot for various purposes, such as CLI tooling that automatically synthesizes POMs to perform various tasks. I personally feel deprecating these metaversions was a mistake—I find them incredibly useful, with the understanding that I would never use them for production reproducible builds. But I do understand the rationale: we don't want to encourage anyone to use these in a way that harms the stability of dependency resolution, reproducibility-wise. So I'm OK with it, as long as there is a migration path forward for these sorts of use cases.
   
   But what is that path? I cannot find a way to replicate either of the metaversion behaviors using version ranges. There are problems with version ranges ([MNG-3092](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-3092), [MNG-6049](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6049)) preventing them from being used as a replacement for LATEST or RELEASE. Furthermore, in my tests, specifying a version range like `[0,)` causes Maven to download POMs at a bunch of (maybe all?) versions of an artifact, whereas `LATEST` and `RELEASE` do not trigger en masse downloading.l
   
   Is there a non-deprecated syntax that has equivalent behavior? As things stand, I am concerned that support for these metaversions is going to disappear in a future version of Maven. If there is no way to achieve the metaversion behavior without them, please let me know, so that I can open an issue on the JIRA. Thanks!
   
   Edit: I filed [MNG-7343](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MNG/issues/MNG-7343).


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