Re: release policy add on proposal: avoid dependencies on older maven releases

[Michal Maczka <mm...@interia.pl>]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 03:29, Brett Porter wrote:
> Irrelevant for m2 - nothing will depend on the maven core (but things like wagon
> etc might have various versions floating around). Improvements to let
> dependencies specify version ranges will help (so rc2+ would use rc3 if it were
> already there).
> 
> As far as Maven 1.x goes, I'll hack the offending plugins to use the executing
> version of maven instead.

And that is the right thing. Dependency on executing version of maven
should be presumed. It's not that easy as it seems to implement this.

Anything else  will be an attempt to fix the consequence not the cause.

Michal