On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to signify latest stable version? Because when you use:
>   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure            "LATEST"]
> it wants to work with:
>     clojure-1.9.0-alpha10
>
> I prefer to use clojure-1.8.0. There is a reason it is called alpha. But
> when there is a stable 1.9.0 I want to use that one.
>

No - you'll have to specify "1.8.0" as the version if you want the
latest stable release. Maven-style repos support two special versions:
"LATEST" and "RELEASE". LATEST will give you the latest deployment,
either a release or a snapshot. RELEASE ignores snapshots, so you get
the latest release. Since there is no standard around qualifiers
(alpha, beta, final, experimental, etc) other than SNAPSHOT, the repo
has no way to know that 1.9.0-alpha10 has a different stability level
than 1.8.0.

However, I would recommend against using these special versions in
general (even if they did work the way you want), because you will at
some point get a new version with no action on your part. When this
happens, you may end up with test failures or new warning messages,
and have to track down the cause, looking at every dependency you have
set to a special version, with no immediate indication of which ones
may have changed.

- Toby

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