Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
Sent from my [rhymes with myPod] ;-) On 10 Feb 2009, at 19:05, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 10-Feb-09, at 1:06 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: 2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : On 10-Feb-09, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: 2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : On 10-Feb-09, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Connolly wrot

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 10-Feb-09, at 1:06 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: 2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : On 10-Feb-09, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: 2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : On 10-Feb-09, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: Which is why I think that the rules need to be defined at the repository, and per gro

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : > > On 10-Feb-09, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > >> 2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : >>> >>> On 10-Feb-09, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: >>> Which is why I think that the rules need to be defined at the repository, and per groupId >>> >>> That's just

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 10-Feb-09, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: 2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : On 10-Feb-09, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: Which is why I think that the rules need to be defined at the repository, and per groupId That's just a nightmare. What's wrong with just settling on something

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Oleg Gusakov
Brian E. Fox wrote: Once multiple resolution strategies start appearing, life will be infinitely more complicated. yes :( I think Mercury has a pretty decent potential to cover majority of the reasons to change version comparisons. For example - there is a notion of version quality and reposit

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
2009/2/10 Jason van Zyl : > On 10-Feb-09, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > >> Which is why I think that the rules need to be defined at the >> repository, and per groupId >> > > That's just a nightmare. What's wrong with just settling on something that > works for everyone. I really and truly

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Christian Schulte
Christian Schulte schrieb: > Stephen Connolly schrieb: >> What I'm thinking is that if we had some metadata associated with the >> groupId, it could specify what the version comparison rule is for that >> groupId (and all it's child groupIds)... > > It would be very cool to have some general purpo

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Christian Schulte
Stephen Connolly schrieb: > What I'm thinking is that if we had some metadata associated with the > groupId, it could specify what the version comparison rule is for that > groupId (and all it's child groupIds)... It would be very cool to have some general purpose grouplevel metadata! Various thin

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 10-Feb-09, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: Which is why I think that the rules need to be defined at the repository, and per groupId That's just a nightmare. What's wrong with just settling on something that works for everyone. I really and truly can't honestly see how the OSGi ver

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
Which is why I think that the rules need to be defined at the repository, and per groupId 2009/2/10 Brian E. Fox : > Once multiple resolution strategies start appearing, life will be > infinitely more complicated. If you use a different strategy and I > consume your artifacts, I need to be able to

RE: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Brian E. Fox
Once multiple resolution strategies start appearing, life will be infinitely more complicated. If you use a different strategy and I consume your artifacts, I need to be able to interpret your strategy and use it when calculating your part of the tree. (and someone else's etc). That means the strat