On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> a snapshot usually has no guarantee of passing any sort of test....its a way 
> for a programmer/developer to prove
> that the developer assigned has done *something*..but the snapshot carries no 
> guarantee has passed completely thru the SDLC validation lifecycle
>
> a release carries much more weight..basically
>

Right, I tend to forget that aspect, it's just natural to me. It's
also recommended that you use snapshot for intra-team dependencies,
but use releases for inter-team dependences. Take an OSS model for
example, we try to avoid picking up snapshot dependencies of other oss
projects we depend upon in Maven. We typically wait for a release
before updating. If you aren't careful and you've mixed releases and
snapshots together in the same repo, then it's difficult to give
people access to one without the other.

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