Carlos Sanchez wrote:
Sound like a lot of added complexity that will cause trouble to all
tooling on top of Maven
Can you justify that with an example, at all?
What about forcing the xml schema to a standard versioning system. If
it's used then you'll benefit from all Maven goodies. If you just use
a String Maven will do its best.
For instance
<version>
<major>1</major>
<minor>2<minor>
<bug>1</bug>
<buildnumber>123</buildnumber>
</version>
The problem is basically that this simply isn't powerful enough to cover
all the various versioning schemes there are in the wild. Suggesting
forcing everybody to conform to your idea of versioning isn't at all
helpful; similarly imposing a complex mapping between upstream and maven
versions for a project is unattractive.
Furthermore you don't leave any scope for extension such as might be
required for local modifications of a project.
Stéphane also suggested forcing a particular versioning convention on
everybody - the same argument applies.
Regarding Kenney's proposal: as discussed on #maven, all sounds very
sensible to me. I'm still fishing for, and failing to find, examples of
failures for projects where people invert the precedence of . and -;
however anyone doing that probably deserves what they get.
I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect a project's maven
versions to be consistent with 1.0alpha2 vs 1.0-alpha-3 - so jumping
through hoops to make this work may not be worthwhile.
Is it a given that we want SNAPSHOT < alpha < beta < gamma < rc < ga ?
What happens when we've released an alpha, but want to continue hacking
on SNAPSHOTs before releasing another? we want SNAPSHOT between rc and
ga, no?
Also, does "unknown(lexical sort) < ''" not conflict with "In my sample
implementation, 2.0.1-xyz is newer than 2.0.1."? I may just be
misunderstanding your explanation, but if you could clarify what exactly
happens when a given component isn't present, and for unrecognised
qualifiers, that would be useful.
I've found the current scheme quite limited, and certainly capable of
producing unexpected results, so I'm definitely in favour of making some
changes here.
Best regards,
Richard
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