On Aug 6, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Kalle Korhonen wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Haszlakiewicz, Eric
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>> I don't (yet) know much about the internals of maven, but is it really
>> that much of an impact on the code?  There's already support present for
>> checking for differences in snapshot versions, right?  I'm imagining
>> that making it work for release artifacts would be a matter of not
>> distinguishing between release and snapshot artifacts and having the
>> check apply to both.
>> It sounds like you think it'll be harder to do than that; what I am
>> missing?
> 
> What you are asking is absurd. That's the exact difference between
> snapshots and releases; snapshots should be updated and releases
> shouldn't. Why would you insist on removing this differentiation?
> Wouldn't it be easier for you to just use snapshots if you need to
> check for updates?

What Katie (and others) said!

I have my differences with the current Maven philosophy, but one thing that has 
been baked in from the beginning is that artifact coordinates imply a fixed 
thing. The artifact does not change. That's one of the *points* of Maven.

-K


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