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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
