[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Build System] - Re: Maven Version ranges - The version format

[heiko.braun@jboss.com]

Another useful pick from "BetterBuildsWithMaven":

anonymous wrote : 
  | With regard to ordering, the elements are considered in sequence to determine which is newer - first
  | by major version, second - if the major versions were equal - by minor version, third by bug fix version,
  | fourth by qualifier (using string comparison), and finally, by build number. A version that contains a
  | qualifier is older than a version without a qualifier; for example, 1.2-beta is older than version 1.2. A
  | version that also contains a build number is considered newer than a version without a build number;
  | for example, 1.2-beta-1 is newer than 1.2-beta. In some cases, the versions will not match this syntax.
  | In those cases, the two versions are compared entirely as strings.
  | 
  | 

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