I suppose you can ask Sonatype to offer a sort by release date feature on that kid of query result.
Gary On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 10:44 Melloware Inc <melloware...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gary, > > Maven Central Search does not. Se ethos URL: > https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:commons-io > > Commons-IO 20030203.000550 is shown as the latest version incorrectly. > > Mello > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:29 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm not sure what you are using, but Maven Central sorts by release date: > > https://search.maven.org/artifact/commons-io/commons-io > > > > Gary > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:56 AM Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > It is strange to have an older version have a larger major version > number > > > than a newer version. > > > Of course we might never witness a major version whose number be > > 10000000+ > > > in our life, but... > > > That just feels strange. > > > > > > > > > Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> 于2020年6月14日周日 下午9:52写道: > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:51 AM Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Or if we should create commons-io2 and commons-BeanUtils2 like > what > > > > > we've done in lang3, as @John Patrick suggested? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> 于2020年6月14日周日 下午9:39写道: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:40 AM Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > every time my update tool chain thinks 20030203.000550 is a > > greater > > > > > > version > > > > > > > than 2.7 (actually it is, if see it in number). > > > > > > > So have we some way to delete it from maven central? (or rename > > > it?) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, but we will never do that. That would break applications > > > depending > > > > > on > > > > > > that version. There are rare cases where releases may be > withdrawn. > > > > > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The same problem happened in BeanUtils, version 20030211.134440 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ============================== > Melloware > melloware...@gmail.com > http://melloware.com > ============================== >