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Robert Scholte closed MNG-7221.
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Fix Version/s: (was: wontfix-candidate)
(was: waiting-for-feedback)
Assignee: Robert Scholte
Resolution: Won't Fix
It is quite hard to bind numbers to "many developers that don't understand
SNAPSHOT" and "many users that would understand FUTURE".
For the same reason I could say that this is the first time in ~20 years and
with over 10 million Maven users this is the first time we see this request. It
is all about the context.
The next thing is about how people would know about such alias? Probably on the
same page as where SNAPSHOT is explained. So in the end there's not much to
gain. Adding such feature to Maven core it just not worth it.
However, there is also good news. For such Maven customization there's
something called [Maven
Extensions|https://maven.apache.org/extensions/index.html]. It should be
possible to find a component in the code where you can replace your "-FUTURE"
version with the "-SNAPSHOT" version.
> Allow "FUTURE" as an alias for "SNAPSHOT"
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> Key: MNG-7221
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7221
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 3.8.2
> Reporter: Enrique Arizón Benito
> Assignee: Robert Scholte
> Priority: Minor
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> +underlined text+SNAPSHOT versioning is an excellent idea that solve many
> problems, still many people do not understand them, mostly because they do
> not have the time to read the related documentation or just get confused by
> blogs with incorrect information.
> After working with many developers with different skills and experience I
> have found that replacing SNAPSHOT by FUTURE offers a much more intuitive
> idea on how to use the maven snapshots.
> IMHO, allowing for nomenclature like "v1-FUTURE" as an alias for
> "v1-SNAPSHOT" will boost the perceived usability of maven to many non-expert
> developers.
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