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Subject: Re: Handling of unrecognised version qualifiers
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:17:59 +0200
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Le mardi 7 juin 2011, Paul Gier a =E9crit :
> On 05/27/2011 11:02 AM, Paul Gier wrote:
> > Maven 3 currently treats unrecognised version qualifiers as newer
> > releases than the GA release.  For example:
> >=20
> > 1.0 is older than 1.0-xyz
> >=20
> > It also looks like this was reversed at some point, since there is a
> > test case commented out on line 117 that expects the opposite behaviour
> > [1].  So is the current behaviour correct?  Or does the commented test
> > case mean that this ordering will be reversed at some point in the
> > future?
> >=20
> > My personal preference is that we replace the commented test case with
> > one testing for the reverse order, so that we prevent this from changing
> > in the future.  So all unrecognised qualifiers are treated as patch
> > releases, and considered newer than the GA release.
> >=20
> > Thanks!
> >=20
> > [1]http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/maven-3/trunk/maven-artifact/src/=
te
> > st/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/DefaultArtifactVersionTest=
=2Ej
> > ava?annotate=3D1084807
>=20
> Based on this discussion, I add a couple of checks in the unit test to
> verify the current behaviour.
>=20
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5114
>=20
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in fact, this case was already covered by ComparableVersionTest, which is t=
he=20
full version order test, written with a more generic approach.

I don't remember if I reverted this case by inadvertance or because I=20
discovered a subtle case that could not be handled, sorry.

Regards,

Herv=E9

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