Not entirely sure I agree with this point. Another level of
complexity to get round this issue?
surely if folk have any problems they can use dependencyManagement
and pluginManagement to solve
the same issue?
I know plenty of folk who barely know why to separate snapshot from
release repositories, I think adding another split will just raise
the bar of easy adoption...
Andy
On 29 Mar 2007, at 00:46, Brett Porter wrote:
Hi,
I didn't want to pin the assembly plugin vote to this, but it
seemed like a good opportunity to bring this up.
I'd like to propose we split the stable repository from the
unstable repository (which would be where alphas, betas and rcs get
deployed), and make this a documented best practice.
This would not be a concept change in Maven (at least, yet - it
could be something to consider in the versioning in future): it's
simply two types of release repositories. The stable one would be
included in Maven by default, the unstable/pre-release one would
not. You'd have to add the repository to your project.
I would suggest this for future additions to central, but leave
anything currently there in place for backwards compat.
I think this is a good all round concept, but there is a particular
practical problem that we should do this for: unpinned plugin
versions. In the specific example of the assembly plugin - if you
don't request a version (ie, use latest release), or you said
[2.1,), then you'll get the 2.2-beta-1 release which is presumably
less stable than 2.1. The same rationalisation would apply to
ranges used in any dependency, but thats the biggest use case I can
think of that affects people today. It would allow us to do more
regular test releases of the plugins.
Thoughts?
- Brett
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