Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
esolution 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 strategies need t

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Jason van Zyl
. so that 20030607 should be less than 1.0!!! 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 interpret your strategy and use

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
f maven, and we cannot use them because version ranges only work for three digit version numbers... So now you have decided that OSGi is great, let's make OSGi work... well that's great, just when you're making OSGi work, don't add stuff in that breaks the rest of us

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Jason van Zyl
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 strategies need to be implemented and available in the repository for mercury to use. -Original Message- From: St

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Oleg Gusakov
ocess without knocking build tooling off it's feet. -Original Message- From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:32 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Version comparison rules OK, here's a hairy old chestnut... Maven has a

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
when calculating your part of the tree. (and someone else's etc). >>> That means the strategies need to be implemented and available in the >>> repository for mercury to use. >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen

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
nd available in the repository for mercury to use. -Original Message- From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:32 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Version comparison rules OK, here's a hairy old chestnut... Maven has a

Re: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
nolly [mailto:stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:32 AM > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Version comparison rules > > OK, here's a hairy old chestnut... > > Maven has a set of version comparison rules... they don't work for >

RE: Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Brian E. Fox
s the strategies need to be implemented and available in the repository for mercury to use. -Original Message- From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:32 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Version comparison rules OK, here's a

Version comparison rules

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
OK, here's a hairy old chestnut... Maven has a set of version comparison rules... they don't work for everyone... well life sucks Mercury has a new set of version comparison rules... they're a lot better, but probably don't work for everyone... life still sucks... I&#