Another question: what should be service releases be called? 1.0.sr1? 1.0-sr1? 1.0.1?
Lóránt 2010/3/23 Lóránt Pintér <lorant.pin...@gmail.com>: > At this point I cannot see why I would mix SNAPSHOT and final versions > of my artifacts as dependencies. (This is a standalone product, the > only things depending on it are our tools that create test databases > etc.) > > Apart from this, is there any danger in using the 2) scheme, i.e. > always having 1.0-SNAPSHOT as the development version? > > Also, if I want to release my milestone versions, what is the best way > to name them? Options that spring to mind: > > 1) 1.0-m1, 1.0-rc1 > 2) 1.0-M1, 1.0-RC1 > 3) 1.0.m1, 1.0.rc1 > 4) 1.0.M1, 1.0.RC1 > > And what shall I call the final version? 1.0? or 1.0.GA? How is Maven > going to decide which is the never? Is it important? > > Lóránt > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:43, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Hi Lóránt, >> >> Lóránt Pintér wrote at Dienstag, 23. März 2010 10:21: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am in doubt regarding what version numbers I should use for my >>> product. There are two schemes I can think of right now: >>> >>> 1) 1.0-m1-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0-m1 -> 1.0-m2-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0-m2 -> >>> 1.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0-rc1 ... >>> >>> 2) 1.0-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0-m1 -> 1.0-SNAPSHOT -> 1.0-m2 -> 1.0-SNAPSHOT -> >>> 1.0-rc1 ... >>> >>> If I use the first solution, I can always tell by looking at even the >>> SNAPSHOT version numbers what milestone we are getting towards. >>> However, if I use the second version, my other products that depend on >>> this product won't need to "upgrade" every time there is a new >>> milestone release. This is a high maintenance, error-prone task that I >>> would like to avoid. >>> >>> What do you suggest? >> >> Definitely 1, because 1.0-SNAPSHOT is *always* the lowest version in this >> scenario: >> >> 1.0-SNAPSHOT < 1.0-rc1 < 1.0-rc2 < 1.0 < 1.0.1 >> >> i.e. the dependency resolution of Maven will never pick the SNAPSHOT if you >> have the artifact in your transitive deps one time with the SNAPSHOT and one >> time with a released version. >> >> Background: >> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2323 >> >> - Jörg >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
