On 2025/02/28 08:28:22 "Piotr P. Karwasz" wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that more and more Maven plugins are releasing 4.x betas, which > sounds like great news. > > Might I, however, suggest the usage of pre-release qualifiers of the > form `beta.<n>` (with a dot) instead of `beta-<n>` (with a hyphen)? This > would improve compatibility between Maven ordering and the ordering > specified by the Semantic Versioning specification[1]. Maven doesn't > really care if the separator is a dot, hyphen or is omitted, but semver > expects numeric identifiers to be separated with a dot. Otherwise it > sorts lexicographically: `beta-1`, `beta-10`, `beta-2`. > > Since I value consistency, I am proposing this change for plugins that > have not released a beta yet: it would be really strange if `beta-2` was > followed by `beta.3`.
We loosely follow SemVer, so do our parsers. Changing this would mean change all versioning/release schemes. I bet that other committers would be reluctant to that. M --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
