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Matthew Beermann commented on MECLIPSE-267:
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I just wanted to chime in and point out that:
* Version ranges appear to be discouraged within Maven, in general - they're
used almost nowhere within Maven itself.
* Although Maven and OSGi both appear to support version ranges, the
resemblance is superficial. In particular, they make opposite assumptions about
whether a qualified version is greater than or less than its unqualified
counterpart. Which means that blindly reusing the OSGi range in Maven (as the
plugin does today) is actually quite dangerous.
> Enhance make-artifacts to not create POMs that have version ranges
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> Key: MECLIPSE-267
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-267
> Project: Maven 2.x Eclipse Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: PDE support
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Micah Whitacre
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> Currently when using the make-artifacts goal to deploy Eclipse artifacts to a
> remote repository the POMs are created in such a way the versions of the
> dependencies have ranges similar to [3.3,4). This information is pulled from
> the Manifest. I'd like a way to specify not to use those version ranges in
> the POM but to instead have a soft dependency on a specific version. The
> situation that is occurring is that when I have deployed both Eclipse 3.2 and
> 3.3 endstates to a remote repository, the 3.2 dependencies have ranges
> specified which then pull in the 3.3 endstates. This causes conflicts when I
> want to only include 3.2 endstates. If there was a way to 1. not use version
> ranges in the POM and 2. instead have a soft dependency on a specific
> version. This would eliminate the need to specify each and every Eclipse 3.2
> artifact for fear a transitive 3.3 dependency got pulled in.
> I have also seen this cause errors when a transitive dependency pulls in a
> 3.3 endstate that has conflicting version ranges for an artifact I have a
> dependency on. Since the 3.3 endstates will have version ranges of [3.3,4)
> but I might specify 3.2 dependencies, if I have a first class dependency on
> 3.2 and a transitive dependency on the same artifact but the range is
> [3.3,4), I will not be able to build my project.
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