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Dennis Lundberg commented on MNG-5517: -------------------------------------- As far as I understand it, version ranges are not part of the Semantic Versioning specification at all. See http://semver.org/ The page you refer to contains conventions for the node-js project, which has their own style for specifying version ranges. > 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