Tommaso Teofili wrote: > SNAPSHOT is a special version in maven that indicates the latest code; > typically TRUNK or HEAD in a source control. With this version, maven will > automatically grab the latest SNAPSHOT every time you build. On the other > hand, when you are using 2.0, once maven has downloaded this artifact, it > never tries to get a new 2.0. > You should use SNAPSHOT for rapidly moving code where bug fixes and > enhancements are coming fast (our case until the release). > So I think that -SNAPSHOT shoud remain just before the release for > developing purposes, and then move to 2.3.0-incuibating.
I guess I'm just displaying my maven ignorance here. Since we're not uploading any snapshot artifacts to any maven repos, does it still buy us anything? --Thilo > Just my opinion. > Regards, > Tommaso > > > > 2009/6/16 Thilo Goetz <twgo...@gmx.de> > >> Somebody please remind me: what's the purpose of the >> -SNAPSHOT version name? Doesn't this just mean that >> every POM needs to updated twice for a new version, >> once with the snapshot tag, and once without? >> Why aren't we going to the next version directly? >> It's not like we're publishing snapshot releases. >> >> --Thilo >> >
