Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2017-02-11 Thread Jon Harper
Hi, I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNGSITE-300 to improve the documentation of the version order. Cheers, Jon Jon On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Jon Harper wrote: > Hi Hervé, > thanks. I agree that the intro is now better, but I think we need to > describe the order more preci

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2015-03-28 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
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Re: Version ranges and snapshots

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Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2015-03-23 Thread Jon Harper
Hi Hervé, thanks. I agree that the intro is now better, but I think we need to describe the order more precisely. The problem is that the order is quite complex, so maybe this can be moved to another main apt page (different than the designs docs (they are not documentation) http://docs.codehaus.or

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2015-03-22 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Hi Jon, Thank you for your great proposal. I fixed some formatting issues and integrated it: I think the intro is now better Regards, Hervé Le vendredi 20 mars 2015 19:28:24 Jon Harper a écrit : > Hi Hervé, > what do you think of the following first patch ? I haven't generated the > correspond

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2015-03-20 Thread Jon Harper
Hi Hervé, what do you think of the following first patch ? I haven't generated the corresponding html yet, just throwing some ideas.. Regards, Jon Index: pom.apt === --- pom.apt (révision 1668105) +++ pom.apt (copie de travai

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2015-02-15 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Hi Jon, Le dimanche 15 février 2015 21:41:52 Jon Harper a écrit : > Hi, > since there were no answers, I'm not sure I wrote to the correct mailing > list for this problem. good mailing list, but can of worm :) > Can anyone direct me to someone who is interested in > working on this issue ? I can

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2015-02-15 Thread Jon Harper
Hi, since there were no answers, I'm not sure I wrote to the correct mailing list for this problem. Can anyone direct me to someone who is interested in working on this issue ? For info, the docs have been saying the following for 7+ years: "groupId, artifactId, version: These elements are self-ex

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2015-02-05 Thread Jon Harper
Hi, I'm resurrecting this old thread to ask if it's possible to change http://maven.apache.org/pom.html to document the current implementation behavior (7+ years old). Please see my comment on MNG-3092: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3092?focusedCommentId=362616&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-02-18 Thread Michael McCallum
I am only speaking in regard to MNG-3092, there are several other related issues which I think all should be fixed Cons -- 1) Continuous integration of trunks I would like to be able to run the tests of all of my artifacts against a build of trunk of every other. How I curre

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-02-18 Thread Michael McCallum
Well ask us to do something rather than blabber on and we shut up... I lost two managers and a developer which has chewed up all my time... On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:14:59 Stephen Connolly wrote: > IMHO > > I think a vote with the two positions clearly identified (perhaps with pros > and cons for b

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-30 Thread Michael McCallum
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:56:09 Mark Hobson wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Mark Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that linking this level of artifact resolution > > uncertainty to its source repository is a good idea. How version > > ranges are resolved should be completely deterministic a

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-30 Thread Stephen Connolly
IMHO I think a vote with the two positions clearly identified (perhaps with pros and cons for both if the pair of ye can agree on the pros and cons). (unless somebody else has a third position) -Stephen. On Jan 30, 2008 12:56 PM, Mark Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Mark Hobs

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-30 Thread Mark Hobson
On 30/01/2008, Mark Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think that linking this level of artifact resolution > uncertainty to its source repository is a good idea. How version > ranges are resolved should be completely deterministic and independent > from where the artifact was actually do

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-30 Thread Mark Hobson
On 29/01/2008, Michael McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about for MNG-3092 we make it configurable per repository whether the > metadata resolution includes snapshots in ranges... you could even default to > false to keep Dave and yourself happy and I can turn it on where i need it. > > I'

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-29 Thread Michael McCallum
How about for MNG-3092 we make it configurable per repository whether the metadata resolution includes snapshots in ranges... you could even default to false to keep Dave and yourself happy and I can turn it on where i need it. I'm not certain if its possible but would perhaps be the most flexi

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Hobson
On 23/01/2008, Michael McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:42:13 Mark Hobson wrote: > > There is another caveat in that it's all or nothing. Using a profile > > mechanism will switch all range dependencies into snapshot mode, when > > typically a developer only wishes to u

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-23 Thread Michael McCallum
so you are saying that A-2.0-SNAPSHOT uses B [1,2-!) and someone deploys B 1.4.1-SNAPSHOT and that overrides B 2.0-SNAPSHOT and B 1.4 or just that it overrides B1.4? Depends on your use case... as to how you would deal with that. And one of the reasons why I don't want mng-3092 because I can CI

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-23 Thread Stephen Connolly
But that will bugger you up... You are working on the version 2 branch, there is no 2.0 released, only 2.0-SNAPSHOT... you don't care as it is still new and you are happy to use the last stable release, 1.4... Now there is some work that is needed for the 1.4 service pack, so 1.4.1-SNAPSHOT arriv

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-23 Thread Michael McCallum
BTW if you want to _not_ include a snapshot on an open upper bound you can.. [1,2-!) which will not include 1.0-SNAPSHOT, 1-SNAPSHOT will include any version between 1 and 2 including any 1.2-SNAPSHOT or 1.4-SNAPSHOT will not include 2.0-SNAPSHOT or 2-SNAPSHOT On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:42:13 Mark

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-23 Thread Michael McCallum
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:42:13 Mark Hobson wrote: > Hi Michael, > There is another caveat in that it's all or nothing. Using a profile > mechanism will switch all range dependencies into snapshot mode, when > typically a developer only wishes to upgrade a couple. How could this > be achieved using

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-23 Thread Mark Hobson
Hi Michael, On 23/01/2008, Michael McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly IMHO of MNG-3092 is that is it not the right thing for maven in > general. > > I believe with MNG-2994 and appropriate use of profiles to enable and disable > snapshot repositories you can have everything that you wan

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-22 Thread Michael McCallum
Firstly IMHO of MNG-3092 is that is it not the right thing for maven in general. I believe with MNG-2994 and appropriate use of profiles to enable and disable snapshot repositories you can have everything that you want and still maintain the ability to allow any snapshot to be injected when des

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-22 Thread dhoffer
Mark, I added more files to MNG-3351 (since I'm not sure what will be needed). This issue also relates to MIDEA-84 (I don't know if you use IntelliJ or not). Regards, -Dave dhoffer wrote: > > Mark, > > That sounds wonderful. I want to help any way I can! > > I attached some test files to

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-22 Thread dhoffer
Mark, That sounds wonderful. I want to help any way I can! I attached some test files to MNG-3351 today (pom and settings files). I don't know if this is enough, if you need more just let me know I will try to get it for you. I stumbled across MNG-2431 recently, this fix will get this one for

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-22 Thread Mark Hobson
I agree with David's comments. Responding to his latest comment on MNG-3092 here to keep discussion out of JIRA: I totally empathise with your situation David. It seems that we're both wishing to use version ranges in the same way, the only difference is that you've bit the bullet already wherea

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-18 Thread dhoffer
I feel this is the most important bug that needs to be fixed. We make heavy use of version ranges and without this fix they are unusable (we have to manually apply a patch to each maven release). "1) You wish a release build with no snapshots which is the normal behaviour and so you just build t

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-18 Thread dhoffer
"..It's crazy that version ranges are still unusable in 2.0.8.." Exactly, we really need this fixed, can we apply this patch so we can use version ranges and snapshots. This issue is killing us. -Dave mihobson wrote: > > On 10/01/2008, Michael McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> another th

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-14 Thread Michael McCallum
Back to the origin of the thread Version ranges with non-snapshot bounds can contain snapshot versions http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3092 I feel that the current behaviour is correct and can be managed sufficiently by profiles. Let me render some scenarios... 1) You wish a release build

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-14 Thread Michael McCallum
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:43:38 Michael McCallum wrote: > > It's crazy that version ranges are still unusable in 2.0.8.. > * we can mix and match snapshots during development if we need to would not appear to work, i could swear i had this working in the last year... oh well, i can see how that wou

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-14 Thread Michael McCallum
> It's crazy that version ranges are still unusable in 2.0.8.. I disagree entirely. I use version ranges for a very complex Project... and it works very well * we have repeatable builds * we can mix and match snapshots during development if we need to * releases fail if you have snapshot deps ev

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-14 Thread Mark Hobson
On 10/01/2008, Michael McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > another thought... > > by default you could not have snapshot repositories enabled and just enable > them with a profile... > > that way all builds by default have no snapshots, you could even have separate > profiles and snapshot repos f

RE: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-10 Thread Brian E. Fox
It will warn or fail the build. It's a gatekeeper not a negotiator ;-) -Original Message- From: dhoffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:49 PM To: dev@maven.apache.org Subject: Re: Version ranges and snapshots Does maven-enforcer-plugin just stop a

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-10 Thread dhoffer
Does maven-enforcer-plugin just stop a build from including a snapshot or does it force it to find a release? You know what I mean? Is it a after-the-fact filter or does it change the behavior of maven? Michael McCallum-3 wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:15:55 Michael McCallum wrote: >> > I

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-10 Thread dhoffer
We have thought about this but since it cannot prevent local snapshots it is not really a solution only a technique to limit the problem. BTW, we use TeamCity for CI, builds get farmed out to many build agents so what is in their local repo is quite random; sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-10 Thread Michael McCallum
another thought... by default you could not have snapshot repositories enabled and just enable them with a profile... that way all builds by default have no snapshots, you could even have separate profiles and snapshot repos for different departments to a allow more flexible integration -- M

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-08 Thread Michael McCallum
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:15:55 Michael McCallum wrote: > > IMHO, I think our approach excels in making sure this doesn't happen. > > First and foremost, if this version range issue can be fixed, snapshots > > will never be considered valid unless explicitly asked for. Therefore > > snapshot deploys

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-08 Thread Michael McCallum
> IMHO, I think our approach excels in making sure this doesn't happen. > First and foremost, if this version range issue can be fixed, snapshots > will never be considered valid unless explicitly asked for. Therefore > snapshot deploys will never be a problem for me. Currently I can't even > r

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-08 Thread dhoffer
"...But at the same time I would never want another department to break my build by deploying a snapshot I'm not ready for. " IMHO, I think our approach excels in making sure this doesn't happen. First and foremost, if this version range issue can be fixed, snapshots will never be considered val

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-08 Thread Michael McCallum
All fair comments. We don't release documentation for each release. site-deploys are independent. And we have perhaps fewer people. But at the same time I would never want another department to break my build by deploying a snapshot I'm not ready for. Quite possibly we could make more use of sn

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-07 Thread dhoffer
"...but anything that i share with other developers has a release version. Each of our artifacts that in active development will get released at least once a day." That strikes me as working against the grain of agile development. Our developers work across components and need to link in that

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-07 Thread Michael McCallum
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:25:06 dhoffer wrote: > Regarding 1: Well that's not normal maven operation. You apparently have > created a 'work-around' that works for you...I prefer to fix the bug so it > works as it is specified. > > There are lots of reasons to deploy snapshots. Normal maven behavior

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-07 Thread dhoffer
Regarding 1: Well that's not normal maven operation. You apparently have created a 'work-around' that works for you...I prefer to fix the bug so it works as it is specified. There are lots of reasons to deploy snapshots. Normal maven behavior is that everything, in development, is always a sn

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-07 Thread Michael McCallum
We just avoid that being an issue in three ways... 1) I slap anyone around who deploys a snapshot to a remote repository unless they have a _very_ good excuse. My method is to increment the major version if there is a breaking change and release early to avoid the need for snapshots. Ideally th

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-07 Thread dhoffer
Which maven release/build is this in? Based on my understanding I don't think this is sufficient to resolve this issue. It needs to exclude 1.0.4-SNAPSHOT as well, let me try to explain. If I specify a version range of [1.0,2.0) for a dependency, what I am saying is that I will accept any RELEA

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-06 Thread Michael McCallum
you can specify a range [1.0,1.1-!) which will stop 1.1-SNAPSHOT from being included, this wont stop 1.0.4-SNAPSHOT but i think thats valid anyway... On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:39:37 dhoffer wrote: > What is the status of this? This issue is very serious (highest priority) > for us; every time we u

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2008-01-05 Thread dhoffer
What is the status of this? This issue is very serious (highest priority) for us; every time we update maven we have to apply a patch to fix this else releases fail. Can we come to some conclusion on how to fix this? -Dave mihobson wrote: > > Hi, > > Whilst attempting to fix MNG-2994,

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-10-17 Thread dhoffer
...be sure to cast your ballot for MNG-3092:) ossi petz-2 wrote: > > hallo > > i would like to add one vote to exclude snapshots from version ranges > that do not declare them. > > we encounter two problematic situations: > > when using the release plugin we need to clean the local reposit

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-10-17 Thread ossi petz
hallo i would like to add one vote to exclude snapshots from version ranges that do not declare them. we encounter two problematic situations: when using the release plugin we need to clean the local repository from snapshots to make sure no snapshots end up in the build or any assembly. t

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-10-12 Thread dhoffer
>Quote: I think snapshots are a different aspect, outside of version ranges. Version ranges are meant to specify a range of versions. Snapshots fit perfectly in a version range. > The problem with the statement that 'snapshots fit perfectly in a version range' is that it missing the point. You ar

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-10-11 Thread dhoffer
You can't fix this by disallowing repos because snapshots may be in the local repo. Max O Bowsher wrote: > > Kenney Westerhof wrote: >> >> >> Patrick Schneider wrote: >>> For now, I'm a fan of disallowing snapshots when they are not >>> explicitly in >>> the boundary, as per the patch. >>> >>

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-10-11 Thread dhoffer
This approach will not work because one would then have to continually specify what snapshots to exclude. We use version ranges to specify the range of valid released versions. I.e. when building get the latest released version (in most all cases). What is need is to somehow disallow all snapsh

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-07-10 Thread Kenney Westerhof
Max Bowsher wrote: Kenney Westerhof wrote: Patrick Schneider wrote: For now, I'm a fan of disallowing snapshots when they are not explicitly in the boundary, as per the patch. In my mind, the problem with a profile flag is that it's an all-or-nothing proposition. Any released artifacts wit

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-07-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Kenney Westerhof wrote: > > > Patrick Schneider wrote: >> For now, I'm a fan of disallowing snapshots when they are not >> explicitly in >> the boundary, as per the patch. >> >> In my mind, the problem with a profile flag is that it's an >> all-or-nothing >> proposition. Any released artifacts w

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-07-10 Thread Kenney Westerhof
Patrick Schneider wrote: For now, I'm a fan of disallowing snapshots when they are not explicitly in the boundary, as per the patch. In my mind, the problem with a profile flag is that it's an all-or-nothing proposition. Any released artifacts with version ranges will also start to pull in sn

Re: Version ranges and snapshots

2007-07-06 Thread Patrick Schneider
For now, I'm a fan of disallowing snapshots when they are not explicitly in the boundary, as per the patch. In my mind, the problem with a profile flag is that it's an all-or-nothing proposition. Any released artifacts with version ranges will also start to pull in snapshots. There wouldn't be