[m2] Question about maven-metadata.xml

["Beermann,Matthew" <Ma...@cerner.com>]

So, I've been looking over the "maven-metadata.xml" files in the
"remote" repository I publish to (just on my hard drive for now).
There's a <release/> tag if I set the updateReleaseInfo flag on the
maven-deploy-plugin, which is all well and good. And there are assorted
<versions/>, in no particular order. My question is: if I were looking
through a remote repository, how would I tell which version is the
latest?

For whatever reason, my "deploy" goal is not adding the <latest/> tag
that I see in the official repositories, nor is it creating the
"version.txt" files I've seen discussed elsewhere. What
setting/plugin/whatever ought to be generating the <latest/> marker?

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Re: [m2] Question about maven-metadata.xml

[Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>]

On 9/30/05, Beermann,Matthew <Ma...@cerner.com> wrote:
>
> My question is: if I were looking
> through a remote repository, how would I tell which version is the
> latest?

Maven defines an ordering for versions (see the
docs.codehaus.org/pages/MAVEN wiki space).

It falls back to string comparison if this type of version is not used
(though it is very flexible already). We intend to allow pluggable
ones later.

> For whatever reason, my "deploy" goal is not adding the <latest/> tag
> that I see in the official repositories, nor is it creating the
> "version.txt" files I've seen discussed elsewhere. What
> setting/plugin/whatever ought to be generating the <latest/> marker?

The latest marker is only set for plugins, and will be removed
eventually. It was a stopgap solution. Latest includes snapshots,
releases do not.

Support for the text files have now been removed in favour of the new metadata.

Is this causing any issues for you?

HTH,
Brett

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