ok, I am a bit confused by what your actually asking here...
but there is no reason in the world you can't use w.x.y.z versioning... On 7/19/07, Johan Iskandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I appreciate the reply, After yet again thinking about it(may be not hard enough :( ), we don't need to have version numbers in the sub module poms for reason explained below. All we need is for the version number to be at the parent level pom. And so the sub module poms are tightly coupled to the parent pom and negating any chances of it being reused by other parent poms. Why? If we ever need to reuse the behavior of the sub-module pom, we need to make it a parent pom, and reuse it in a transitive dependent way. Otherwise it would be a never ending nightmare inside a nightmare.. Though we could have sub modules inside a sub module but I don't see why we really need that, we could just promote the deeper sub module to become a parent module and again reuse it in a transitive dependent way. > From: Arnaud Bailly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes, maven enforces an explicit declaration of version in a > POM. AFAICT, maven does not validate a POM which does not contain a > version number, so you cannot build it. Maven is rather agnostic about > version numbering schemes, but understand quit well x.y.x notation > that is used in version ranges for dependencies management. So the build numbering scheme in maven is x.y.x, and not w.x.y.z i.e. it doesn't differentiate between a build and a bug-fix..? Why I think we need to differentiate between build and bug-fix is that sometimes we want to make refactorings that doesn't necessarily fix a certain bug (i.e. passes all currently known tests) and doesn't do any performance enhancements (both can be signified by the y number), but just to manage codes. From the user point of view the z is insignificant, but from the developers point of view it's a big difference and that's why the z should be there. > > SNAPSHOT is a special qualifier for version that says we are > building a (surprise !) snapshot development version of a piece of > software. Snapshots are handled differently from standard versions, in > that: > - when you install/deploy a project labelled SNAPSHOT, the artifact > is actually deployed with a build number and the repository is > updated to reflect the latest snapshot Well, if this is done so that the repository doesn't grow too big, I'm for it though.. IMHO maven could have just ignored the z number when dealing with user actions such as getting from/installing to repositories, by only managing x.y.x format (cuz this is good for transitive dependencies) But with simple additions to the config described below we could accommodate also the w.x.y.z numbering plan We could define whether the user/developer wants to get up to date at the build level or just at the bug fix level.. -If he chooses to get up to date at the bug fix level the current snapshot mechanism takes action .. -If he chooses to get up to date at the build level maven will delete all build prior to and including x.y.x.z builds and replacing it with the new x.y.x.(z+1) in the repo, and that would still save space... So when it comes to code changes and building the changed code maven knows that it has to change the z number no matter what, and that would make the automatic builds more meaningful. > - you can define different repositories for deploying/downloading > artifacts. > Yes this is one of the good things about maven I like. Best regards, Johan Just my 2 cents
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