[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Build System] - Re: Improvements

[ALRubinger]

The problem with snapshots, and the reason for their ban in AS component-matrix, is because a version of X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT is not enough to uniquely identify a version to make a build reproducible:

* By default, Maven local repo is reconciled only once/day to check for newer versions.
* The notion of "newest" snapshot is defined by a timestamp, a property of the *publishing machine*.  Rouge system clocks wreck havoc on all.
* A developer may have installed a newer version locally than is available to all on snapshots.jboss.org

However, take a look at a typical directory:

http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/ejb3/jboss-ejb3-proxy/0.1.2-SNAPSHOT/

I'd like to test out explicitly specifying an extension in the version, ie:

<version>0.1.2-20080818.031348-4</version>

If Maven handles this case we may again put snaps up for integration testing in AS (using this format only), and hold off preparing a proper release until it's confirmed that the version we're testing is valid.

S,
ALR

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