Re: Dependence on specific versions
Hi Stefane,
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Stefane Fermigier <sf@nuxeo.com> wrote:
> Only by fixing version numbers of third-party libraries can you be sure that the same build that works today will still work next week, if you redo the build on the exact same version of the sources (and Maven, and Java, of course), any operating system.
that sounds good but at least Maven does not really support fixed
dependencies. Example:
a.jar (0.1) depends on b.jar (0.1)
c.jar (0.3) depends on b.jar (0.2)
d.jar (0.4) depends on a.jar (0.1) and c.jar (0.3)
What version of b.jar will be chosen by Maven? 0.1 or 0.2? You cannot
predict that. Neither a.jar nor c.jar can rely on getting the version
they want.
That is why the concept of fixed version dependencies is fully broken, sorry.
Cheers,
Torsten
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