On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Luciano Resende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The good thing about having a version on the pom is that you can have > multiple SNAPSHOTs available in a maven repo (e.g 1.2-SNAPSHOT, > 1.2.1-SNAPSHOT, TRUNK x-SNAPSHOT and TRUNK y-SNAPSHOT), this also > allows for multiple active development streams. > > If you have SNAPSHOT only, I guess you are restricted to only latest > SNAPSHOT, and I also don't see how you would be able to have multiple > active development streams in this case. > > Well I don't think we should be having "multiple active development streams" :) Fine to have historic 1.x, 2.x, 3.x etc branches which are kept alive for maintenance, and that will work fine with trunk being just SNAPSHOT. But we're a small group of active committers still learning how to get consensus on things and i worry it could easily end quite badly if we have multiple trunks all being developed in parralel competing to be the next new version. ...ant
