Note that you don't need to add the comments (or even the exclusion) but these help you later on decipher the intent
On 5 February 2013 13:05, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com>wrote: > It is a version range. > > The [ and ] brackets indicate inclusive end-points, while ( and ) are > exclusive end points, so > > [2.3.19 means >=2.3.19 > 2.4) means < 2.4 > > However, due to how versions are compared, there can be strange versions > that creep into the range. > > My recommendation is to add an exclusion on that library to your pom and > add back in a specific version in order to ensure a reproducible build, e.g. > > if your <dependency> is currently: > > <dependency> > <groupId>com.foo.bar</groupId> > <artifactId>manchu</artifactId> > <version>1.3.4</version> > </dependency> > > and the com.foo.bar:manchu:1.3.4 pom is the one containing the version > range, I would change *your* reference to: > > <dependency> > <groupId>com.foo.bar</groupId> > <artifactId>manchu</artifactId> > <version>1.3.4</version> > <exclusions> > <exclusion> > <!-- excluding transitive version range to gain stable build --> > <groupId>org.something.else</groupId> > <artifactId>some-dep</artifactId> > </exclusion> > </exclusions> > </dependency> > <dependency> > <!-- adding back transitive dependency from com.foo.bar:manchu with > pinned version --> > <groupId>org.something.else</groupId> > <artifactId>some-dep</artifactId> > <version>2.3.21</version> > </dependency> > > Hope that helps > > > On 5 February 2013 12:57, Alberto Ivo <alberto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I saw this version in a lib I want to put in my project and did'nt >> understand what does that mean and didn't find in a maven tutorial.. could >> anyone explain, please? >> >> <dependency> >> ... >> <!-- Latest 2.3.x (not 2.4.x), at least 2.3.19 --> >> * <version>[2.3.19,2.4)</version>* >> </dependency> >> > >
