On 9/18/2010 at 3:37 PM, Ryan McKinley wrote: > As an aside, I still think it is worth changing our dev builds from > "-dev.jar" to "-SNAPSHOT.jar" so that the daily builds are > automatically valid SNAPSHOT builds that are easy for maven/ivy users > to work with. (LUCENE-2493) As is, maven users have to checkout and > build with a special version to test/use a dev build -- since this is > more work then many people want to deal with, we find problems with > the maven pom files *after* the official release.
Shortly after LUCENE-2493 was created, I looked into the possibility of having Maven treat *-dev.jar files as snapshots. As far as I could tell, this is not a configurable item: snapshots are named *-SNAPSHOT.jar - it's hard-coded in lots of places in the Maven code. I like Maven, but inflexibility like this makes it hard to get pre-existing projects to play nice with it... Steve
