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Xiang Li commented on MNG-7049:
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I hit the same issue, I wonder if it is necessary for
DefaultVersionRangeResolver to download all previous poms instead of directly
getting the highest version from metadata, seem maven version plugin did able
to fetch metadata only.
> Version range resolution downloads all poms, not just the highest version
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> Key: MNG-7049
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7049
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: core
> Reporter: Moti Nisenson-Ken
> Priority: Major
>
> When specifying a version range for a dependency, maven will download and try
> to resolve all poms in that range which satisfy the range. The usage however
> is only to use the highestVersion. This causes two issues:
> # Performance - it's downloading numerous poms that aren't needed.
> # Fragility - if the version range covers any "bad" poms, then the build
> will fail. For example, consider that for a specific version, the parent of a
> pom is not present in the repository. This is enough to fail any build with a
> version range covering that specific version, as the range resolution stage
> will not complete. This is particularly harmful when that version would not
> be selected as the highest, anyway.
> Recommend to have a system property to control the desired behavior - it
> should be possible to short-circuit loading all the versions and to just to
> load the highest version.
> For another user report of this see:
> [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25047859/restrict-maven-to-not-download-all-poms]
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