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Jon Harper commented on MNG-3092:
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Hi,
I'm new to this discussion. A first objective is to get the documentation to
match the implementation.
The link
(http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution)
in the original description of this issue seems to be the only documentation
of version ranges. But it is *not* documentation, it's a design document.
People are turning to it because the real documentation is missing. I think
that if we fix the real documentation, it will prevent more confusion.
So I think we need to add documentation to "http://maven.apache.org/pom.html";.
Right now, it has a section on dependencies stating:
{quote}
groupId, artifactId, version:
These elements are self-explanatory
{quote}
*I think this is the root of all the _pain_ and _frustration_ in this thread*.
It's incredibly frustrating and upsetting that this huge issue was being
dismissed as "self-explanatory" in the docs the whole time.
I would be willing to spend time to work and collaborate on improving the
documentation.
Does anyone know who can be contacted to change
http://maven.apache.org/pom.html ?
> resolution of version ranges with non-snapshot bounds can resolve to a
> snapshot version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-3092
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3092
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Dependencies
> Reporter: Mark Hobson
> Assignee: Jason van Zyl
> Fix For: 3.2.x
>
> Attachments: MNG-3092.patch, MNG-3092.patch
>
>
> Contrary to the 2.0 design docs:
> "Resolution of dependency ranges should not resolve to a snapshot
> (development version) unless it is included as an explicit boundary."
> -- from
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution#DependencyMediationandConflictResolution-Incorporating%7B%7BSNAPSHOT%7D%7Dversionsintothespecification
> The following is equates to true:
> VersionRange.createFromVersionSpec( "[1.0,1.1]" ).containsVersion( new
> DefaultArtifactVersion( "1.1-SNAPSHOT" ) )
> The attached patch only allows snapshot versions to be contained in a range
> if they are equal to one of the boundaries. Note that this is a strict
> equality, so [1.0,1.2-SNAPSHOT] will not contain 1.1-SNAPSHOT.
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