Hi, there’s an undergoing debate in the XML Graphics project about doing a release that has a dependency on a snapshot version of another (Apache, for that matter) project.
I know there’s a policy at Apache to not release a project that has non-released dependencies. The problem is, I don’t know how I know that... I cannot seem to be able to find any official documentation that explicitly states it. The following link: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what is apparently not convincing enough. I’m answered that this concerns our own project but that it’s fine to do an official release containing a snapshot binary. Saying that every binary artefact has to be backed by source code and that, in the case of a snapshot, we have to point to some Subversion revision number, is apparently not convincing enough either. Despite the obvious dependency nightmare that that would cause to users (and, in particular, Maven users and Linux distributions). Does anybody have any official reference to point at, that I may have missed? More convincing arguments, legal reasons (should I forward to legal-discuss@)? Thanks, Vincent --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
