[jira] (MNG-3092) Version ranges with non-snapshot bounds can contain snapshot versions

["Scott Sosna (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Scott Sosna commented on MNG-3092:
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Another 3 months and no comment.

I agree with Merlijn.  For development, we *always* want to pull in the latest, greatest module to either build against or run pre-acceptance test against.  We have 15+ modules that are loosely-coupled, but developers typically need the latest version of their dependencies.  Towards the end of development, things are locked down, but not early on.

Version ranges worked great with 2.2.1, but with 3.0.4 it is abysmal.  I'd have everyone stick to 2.2.1, except Maven embeds 3.0.4 and insists on using it for resolving dependencies, hence the problem (even if you associate your 2.2.1 install).

Whatever it is, resolve version ranges so we can at least move forward.  Someone in power take a stand and push something - anything - forward so we don't have to wait another 5 years for a solution.
                
> Version ranges with non-snapshot bounds can contain snapshot versions
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-3092
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3092
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Dependencies
>            Reporter: Mark Hobson
>         Attachments: MNG-3092.patch
>
>
> Contrary to the 2.0 design docs:
> "Resolution of dependency ranges should not resolve to a snapshot (development version) unless it is included as an explicit boundary."
> -- from http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution#DependencyMediationandConflictResolution-Incorporating%7B%7BSNAPSHOT%7D%7Dversionsintothespecification
> The following is equates to true:
> VersionRange.createFromVersionSpec( "[1.0,1.1]" ).containsVersion( new DefaultArtifactVersion( "1.1-SNAPSHOT" ) )
> The attached patch only allows snapshot versions to be contained in a range if they are equal to one of the boundaries.  Note that this is a strict equality, so [1.0,1.2-SNAPSHOT] will not contain 1.1-SNAPSHOT.

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