On Aug 28, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
I don't think that using version ranges really helps make anything easier or simpler.
Regardless of the layout we choose, we should be encouraging our users to specify the spec version using a version range, because if we are releasing a new version, it generally means we are fixing a spec compliancy problem. Spec compliancy is a serious issue and we should be doing our best to make sure our users get the fixes quickly. I also think we should be using them internally in our poms for the same reason, so that as people add dependencies on our specs to their projects they don't get into incompatible situations where one of their dependency is using version 1.0.1 and some other dependency is using version 1.0.3. Version ranges will make everyone's life easier.
-dain
