*Maven Developers*
1) This is a formal request to resolve long standing version range
policy problem in maven,
expressed for example in the following ticket:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3092
THE PROBLEM: LACK OF VERSION RANGE POLICY.
2) I there are no better ideas, I suggest Maven to adopt OSGI
Semantic Version Guidelines.
https://github.com/barchart/barchart-version-tester/wiki/Version-Policy
3) I have working prototype based on maven 3.0.4 with back port of
aether 0.9.0.M2
specifically applied to karaf use case, which could be generalized.
https://github.com/barchart/barchart-maven-karaf-plugin
4) there is an Aries version check plugin, that shows generic java
binary compatibility checks
which should be part of the new maven semantic version contract.
https://github.com/apache/aries/tree/trunk/versioning
Thank you,
Andrei
