What if you could find another way to check API compatibility, would you need this at all?
On Jul 31, 2011, at 6:03 AM, Mark Derricutt wrote: > The use case that we originally came with in our discussions revolved around > version ranges, and the fact that a version reference of "2.5.4" doesn't > actually mean " give me 2.5.4" but rather "I would like 2.5.4, but meh, use > something higher if you need to". > > In the case were you have artifacts using say [1.0.0,2.0.0) and [1.5.0,3.0.0) > as their ranges, maven will favor the highests higher bound, so if 1.5.1, > 1.6.0, 2.0.1, and 2.5.0 are available, maven will choose 1.6.0 to compile > against. > > What we were discussing was that ideally you'd to compile against the lowest > lower bound ( 1.5.1 ), this way you'd get fail fast on any changed APIs that > you inadvertently started to use, alerting you to the fact that you need to > increment the lower bound of your range. > > If you require bug fixes in a newer release which is triggering your tests to > fail, then you should also be incrementing the lower bound. > > The whole purpose of this flow is to drive you to releasing often, and > working off binary dependencies rather than long standing -SNAPSHOTs. This > flow would seem to work best for places who are releasing artifacts every 2-3 > days, and working in a continuous delivery style process - it probably > wouldn't work for Apache projects which often seem to favor long drawn out > cycles ( I recall a thread awhile ago about not wanting to release a plugin > cause it only had one bug fix in it ). > > > Having read the other comments I realize my initial idea is a little crazy, > and as Jason pointed out in the first response, probably more trouble than > its worth. > > Mark > > > > > On 31/07/2011, at 9:41 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: > >> Do you have practical examples that either are not supported, or the actual >> ordering is the contrary than you expected? > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- Simplex sigillum veri. (Simplicity is the seal of truth.)
