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ASF GitHub Bot commented on MRESOLVER-377:
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cstamas merged PR #308:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-resolver/pull/308
> Introduce metadata update policy
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> Key: MRESOLVER-377
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOLVER-377
> Project: Maven Resolver
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Resolver
> Reporter: Tamas Cservenak
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Split the policies applied in case of data and metadata, allowing greater
> control of their updates. Still, work "as before" in case of applications
> that migrate from 1.x resolver (they should receive no behavior change).
> The crux of this change is really just to introduce two policies (to co-exist
> in parallel), but if application using resolver decides to use same policy
> for both, the original behavior of resolver returns and will seemingly behave
> as before (ie. like 1.9.x does).
> Maven relies on metadata in these cases ONLY:
> * resolving maven plugin prefix to maven plugin groupId (G level md)
> * resolving snapshot version to timestamped version (V level md)
> Resolver OTOH provides one more use case:
> * "discovery" of existing versions for given GA (this use case is NOT used in
> Maven Core) (A level md)
> Now, while Maven Core itself does NOT use 3rd use case, some plugins does,
> most notably the versions-maven-plugin. Today, everyone on Earth use this
> plugin along with `-U` Maven switch to pick up new stuff from remote
> repository, but this is total overkill, as it refreshes _everything_ (yes,
> even the immutable release artifacts!). The `-U` is simply a "must", to make
> Maven "refresh metadata" (as well, along with all the Artifacts) to pick up
> new versions on remote. Versions plugin did implement a ["hack" to overcome
> this
> limitation](https://github.com/mojohaus/versions/commit/82e2450d8bbd22c3f8cdc06d44c44d618c69e23e),
> that is still a hack, as it still applies to everything. Proper solution is
> to have means to express `-U but for metadata only`. This PR makes this
> possible on resolver side.
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