Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
ok, I suppose this is a reminiscence of Maven 2: yes, in Maven 2, there was this limitation that caused multiple issues linked in MNG-3010 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-3010 As Robert Scholte noticed, perhaps there are still a few glitches with some plugins here and there, that requi

Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Fred Cooke
Looks like I'm just plain wrong (and happy about it). I'm not sure where that memory came from. Perhaps maven 2 some time ago, though it felt fresh in my mind. Apologies for the noise! :-( On 11 January 2018 at 11:22, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: > Le mercredi 10 janvier 2018, 10:21:35 CET Andreas Sewe

Re: Maven site edit next steps

2018-01-10 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
yes, the tag for apache-5 is bizarre I chose not to do much investigation and let it as is I'll just drop history documentation for these very old versions: honestly, nobody cares Thanks for your in depth tests and report Regards, Hervé Le mercredi 10 janvier 2018, 17:21:00 CET Plamen Totev a

Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Le mercredi 10 janvier 2018, 10:21:35 CET Andreas Sewe a écrit : > Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: > > notice that Central contains artifacts produced by Maven but also by other > > tools: I did some analysis myself and found strange things also that are > > clearly not produced by Maven. Scala for example pr

Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Why do you say that Maven can't handle 4 part versions? I fixed MNG-3010 near 10 years ago for Maven 3.0.0-alpha-1 this was a versioning limitation removal with enhancement documented in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVENOLD/Versioning I can tell you that since this fix, it supp

Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Robert Scholte
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:07:08 +0100, Andreas Sewe wrote: Fred Cooke wrote: Re versions, I know the background on it, but it annoys me that maven can't handle 4 part versions, 1.2.3.4 as sometimes it's handy to do a patch level that deep. Lots of messed up software in the world :-) The n

Re: Maven site edit next steps

2018-01-10 Thread Plamen Totev
Hi, I actually just noticed that the `apache-5` tag is not fixed. Is that on purpose? As result GitHub cannot compare the difference between 6 and 5[1] (the last link in the table). It says they don't have anything in common(if the tag is not fixed that is to be expected). Also I have noticed th

Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Andreas Sewe
Fred Cooke wrote: > Re versions, I know the background on it, but it annoys me that maven can't > handle 4 part versions, 1.2.3.4 as sometimes it's handy to do a patch level > that deep. Lots of messed up software in the world :-) Are you sure that's still the case (the parts-restriction, not the

Surefire 2.21 release date ?

2018-01-10 Thread Enrico Olivelli
(resending) Hi Tibor, Do you have any plan about the release date of surefire 2.21.0 ? If you have some tasks to do I will be happy to help. Cheers Enrico

Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Fred Cooke
Re versions, I know the background on it, but it annoys me that maven can't handle 4 part versions, 1.2.3.4 as sometimes it's handy to do a patch level that deep. Lots of messed up software in the world :-) Format should be N[.N as many times as needed][optional hyphen and qualifier of some sort]

Re: Allowed characters in GAV and how/where to sanitize?

2018-01-10 Thread Andreas Sewe
Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: > notice that Central contains artifacts produced by Maven but also by other > tools: I did some analysis myself and found strange things also that are > clearly not produced by Maven. Scala for example produces some artifacts that > I doubt could be referenced by Maven. Ye