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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by "Siegmann Daniel, NY" <Da...@fja-us.com> on 2008/04/24 16:01:29 UTC
Naming snapshots with alphas / betas
Questions on "best practices". Lets say I'm working toward version 1.0,
releasing snapshots as I go. But I also want to release a few alphas and
betas. Would you name the versions
1.0-alpha-1-SNAPSHOT
1.0-alpha-1
1.0-alpha-2-SNAPSHOT
1.0-alpha-2
...
or
1.0-SNAPSHOT
1.0-alpha-1
1.0-SNAPSHOT
1.0-alpha-2
...
I can see where the former is a bit clearer as to the order in which
versions were released. But if you don't have a set plan ahead of time
as to how many alphas / betas will be cut, the names might not really
work (for example 1.0-alpha-3-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0-beta-1).
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RE: Naming snapshots with alphas / betas
Posted by "Siegmann Daniel, NY" <Da...@fja-us.com>.
<<Use the former, the latter might create problems in dependency
resolution.>>
Good point, thanks.
~Daniel
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RE: Naming snapshots with alphas / betas
Posted by Jörg Schaible <Jo...@Elsag-Solutions.com>.
Siegmann Daniel, NY wrote:
> Questions on "best practices". Lets say I'm working toward
> version 1.0,
> releasing snapshots as I go. But I also want to release a few
> alphas and
> betas. Would you name the versions
>
> 1.0-alpha-1-SNAPSHOT
> 1.0-alpha-1
> 1.0-alpha-2-SNAPSHOT
> 1.0-alpha-2
> ...
>
> or
>
> 1.0-SNAPSHOT
> 1.0-alpha-1
> 1.0-SNAPSHOT
> 1.0-alpha-2
> ...
>
> I can see where the former is a bit clearer as to the order in which
> versions were released. But if you don't have a set plan ahead of time
> as to how many alphas / betas will be cut, the names might not really
> work (for example 1.0-alpha-3-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0-beta-1).
Use the former, the latter might create problems in dependency resolution. E.g. we used the latter pattern originally also for minor releases (1.0 --> 1.0-SNAPSHOT --> 1.0.1 --> 1.0-SNAPSHOT), but it turned out that
1.0-SNAPSHOT < 1.0 < 1.0.1
So, when we returned after the 1.0 release to 1.0-SNAPSHOT the dependency resolution never selected the SNAPSHOT version anymore from the transitive deps if somewhere a released version was available. I am not quite sure where 1.0-SNAPSHOT is inserted in the version sequence compared to 1.0-alpha-x or 1.0-beta-x, but it might not necessarily the place where you expect and you can get strange errors. Therefore it is best practice to use the SNAPSHOT always with a version that will change for the next SNAPSHOT cycle.
- Jörg
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