Resolving SNAPSHOTs from Version Ranges in Maven 3

[Mark Derricutt <ma...@talios.com>]

Hey all,

A while I posted on a change in version range behaviour under Maven 3
(MNG-3092 [1]) but didn't really get much response ( which may have
unfortunately been related to my tone at the time ).

Any way, the change in question is that version ranges no longer resolve a
-SNAPSHOT version unless that range includes the -SNAPSHOT as either the
upper or lower bound.

In general I think this is an awesome change as it solves a lot of issues,
and will help prevent accidental API breakages.

However, it also breaks the way our projects are setup for integration
testing and packaging - and if this change does remain in Maven 3 final, I
was hoping to find a way to work around/adapt our builds.

Currently, we set out inter-project dependencies on a range of [2.0.0,3.0.0)
- meaning anything in the 2-series gets picked up.  Under Maven 3 this falls
down for our integration test project which we want to pick up any -SNAPSHOT
version in the range so that any problems are picked up BEFORE releasing
individual artifacts.

This also falls down for our distribution builds, where for a SNAPSHOT
distribution, we'd want them.

Ideally, what I'd love to see is a way of allowing -SNAPSHOT resolution in
ranges as an option, so that for those particular artifacts that need it,
still get them.

Thoughts?

Mark



[1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3092

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Re: Resolving SNAPSHOTs from Version Ranges in Maven 3

[Mark Derricutt <ma...@talios.com>]

I just added a new comment to MNG-4751 regarding this issue:

  http://bit.ly/9TaV3D

Basically - a work-around solution would be to allow -SNAPSHOT resolution
for artifacts that are currently part of a reactor process.


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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Benjamin Bentmann <
benjamin.bentmann@udo.edu> wrote:

> Mark Derricutt wrote:
>
>  Ideally, what I'd love to see is a way of allowing -SNAPSHOT resolution in
>> ranges as an option, so that for those particular artifacts that need it,
>> still get them.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> Vote on http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4751
>
>
> Benjamin
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Re: Resolving SNAPSHOTs from Version Ranges in Maven 3

[Benjamin Bentmann <be...@udo.edu>]

Mark Derricutt wrote:

> Ideally, what I'd love to see is a way of allowing -SNAPSHOT resolution in
> ranges as an option, so that for those particular artifacts that need it,
> still get them.
>
> Thoughts?

Vote on http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4751


Benjamin

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