Comments on MNG-2123 (version specification issues)

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2123

 

The proposed fix is to return RELEASE as the version if two dependencies
at the same level specify incompatible versions (ie 3.2 and
(2.0,3.1.99]). Clearly we shouldn't throw an NPE, but returning the
RELEASE version feels wrong. First that totally breaks repeatability of
a build and second, shouldn't we notify the user with a useful exception
instead of guessing anything?

 

--Brian