On 4/21/07, Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So if I say <quality>BETA</quality> then no alpha bundle (a bundle containing alpha software) will be selected.
Who exactly decides what the quality is for a given release? Outside of a handful (literally) of major apps/projects (Linux kernel and Apache webserver come to mind), very few seem to have a good sense for this, and I'm not even positive I'd totally trust myself with that decision for code I'm working on at times. We already have enough trouble getting projects to provide us with very basic poms, much less providing full poms with these kinds of details. So right off the bat, this sounds like a losing proposition for 95% of the projects in the wild. Also, what happens when I specify <quality>BETA</quality> and depend on artifact xyz which brings in xyz-1.0.2-BETA which has a dependency on artifact abc-2.0.1-ALPHA? Will you expect Maven to pick xyz-1.0.1 (final) which depended on abc-2.0.0 (final) since it can't satisfy all transitive requirements with BETA quality code? This just doesn't seem manageable for anyone... Of course, its much easier to find problems than solutions, so I don't want to discourage you from continuing the discussion. I just don't think this is the solution. Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
