[
https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5517?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=333156#comment-333156
]
Vijay Dharap commented on MNG-5517:
-----------------------------------
Hi Dennis,
I agree that its not semvar.org spec per say. That's why I had mentioned in
ticket subject as "semvar like syntax".
What I wanted to shwocase was that syntax that node-js people have adapted is
much much more intuitive with '>', '<', '~' (i.e. approximately), even '*' and
'latest' (undocumented on the linked page).
That was the reason to propose that kind of syntax. Hope that clarifies.
> 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
