[jira] Commented: (MPARTIFACT-19) determine automatically if artifact is a snapshot or not

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The following comment has been added to this issue:

     Author: Brett Porter
    Created: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 8:41 AM
       Body:
I'm not sure about this - the whole point is so that we don't need to parse the filename :)

current practice is to set currentVersion to 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT during development - should this be deployed as a timestamped version, or not?

This needs more thought.
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        Key: MPARTIFACT-19
    Summary: determine automatically if artifact is a snapshot or not
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Minor

 Original Estimate: Unknown
 Time Spent: Unknown
  Remaining: Unknown

    Project: maven-artifact-plugin
   Versions:
             1.0

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: Matthias Kerkhoff

    Created: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 3:58 AM
    Updated: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 8:41 AM
Environment: maven 1.0rc3

Description:
Currently, the artifact plugin defines a taglibary with
tags to install/deploy "release" artifacts and other tags to install/deploy snapshot artifacts.

This distinction, although comprehensible from a technical point of view, should be hidden away from the clients of the artifact plugin. 
>From the users point of view there is just an artifact which should be installed or deployed, be it a snapshot or not. 
To differ between them introduces unnecessary complexity and also adds possibilities for usage errors (ie, trying to install snapshots, to install-snapshot release versions and so on).

IMHO, there should be only two tags, one to deploy and one to install an artifact. A possible implementation just needs to check the filename for SNAPSHOT_SIGNIFIER. If it is part of the artifacts file name, treat it as a snapshot, otherwise not.

To avoid breaking anything, the proposed tags can be added in addition to the existing tags. After a transition period the current tags should be removed.



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