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Paul Benedict commented on MNG-2199:
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I don't think parent versions should act like dependency versions. The parent
should be a known quantity and not subject to environmental changes.
> Version ranges not supported for parent artifacts
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> Key: MNG-2199
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2199
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Inheritance and Interpolation, POM, Reactor and workspace
> Affects Versions: 2.0.3
> Reporter: Christian Schulte
> Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 3.x
>
> Attachments: MNG-2199.patch, MNG-2199.patch
>
>
> It would be great if Maven supports version ranges when specifying parent
> artifacts in a multi-module build. Currently this does not work.
> <parent>
> <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
> <groupId>groupId</groupId>
> <version>[2.0, 2.0.1]</version>
> </parent>
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/groupId/artifactId/[2.0,
> 2.0.1]/artifactId-[2.0, 2.0.1].pom
> Additionally it would be great if this
> <parent>
> <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
> <groupId>groupId</groupId>
> <version>[2.0, ${pom.version}]</version>
> </parent>
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/groupId/artifactId/[2.0,
> ${pom.version}]/artifactId-[2.0, ${pom.version}].pom
> would also work, if the version is specified in the same pom.xml which
> defines this parent definition.
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