On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:44 +0100, Stephen Connolly wrote: > > Unlike the RPC, CQL is meant to be stable. It is a significant > feature > > that you should be able to use the same version of a driver across > many > > versions of Cassandra. This is why the versions must be different, > so > > that you can evaluate each new driver version in the context of how > it > > changed, not (necessarily )how Cassandra changed during some > arbitrary > > release. > > > > This version number is all about versioning the information in the > __pom__. The pom defines transitive dependencies. You might not > rebuild the cql jar at all, but keep redeploying with different poms > (each getting their own version number... because we can only use a > version number once)... yes that is somewhat wasteful of space on the > central repository, but that's the way it works... [1] > > The 0.8.0-beta1 version number is only for the coordinates of the pom > of cassandra-cql that will pull down the dependencies for using cql > with cassandra 0.8.0-beta1. > > If that subtlety helps you understand the versioning I have chosen for > the poms, well that is better.
It sounds to me like you need to omit the CQL jar entirely then, and not add it to Maven Central except as a different project. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
