Vijay Dharap created MNG-5517: --------------------------------- Summary: Supporting semver like syntax for <version> tag Key: MNG-5517 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5517 Project: Maven 2 & 3 Issue Type: Improvement Components: Dependencies, POM Reporter: Vijay Dharap Priority: Minor
node js and its corresponding package manager - npm - follows semvar notation to depict the dependencies. The supported syntax variations for version specification can be seen here. https://github.com/isaacs/node-semver#ranges I find their syntax to be much more intuitive and subsequently user friendly than what is followed in current maven dependency <version> tag (http://books.sonatype.com/mvnref-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-project-dependencies.html#pom-relationships-sect-version-ranges). Hope we can make the pom xml little more user friendly by adapting similar version specification syntax. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira