Maven and snapshot numbers

[Russel Winder-4]

From what I can see, when installing/deploying a snapshot artifact, the
following is true:

Install:

        Maven:  replaces the SNAPSHOT with the date in the form yyyymmdd.hhmmss-n
        Maven Ant Task: just leaves the SNAPSHOT alone, i.e. no date.

Deploy:

        Maven:  replaces the SNAPSHOT with the date in the form yyyymmdd.hhmmss-n
        Maven Ant Task: replaces the SNAPSHOT with the date in the form yyyymmdd.hhmmss-n

As far as I can tell, using SNAPSHOTyymmddhhmmss as Gradle does at
present is never the case when using Maven or the Ant task.  I think at
the very least Gradle should use a full year and not just the last two
digits.

I have taken the liberty of re-opening GRADLE-650
(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRADLE-650) even though Hans had marked
it as Won't Fix.  I don't currently agree with Hans that this is the way
Maven wants it.

I have taken a second liberty in ccing Jason and Jason as they are my de
facto Maven experts!


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[Peter Niederwieser]

Russel Winder-4 wrote:

Install:
        Maven:  replaces the SNAPSHOT with the date in the form yyyymmdd.hhmmss-n

I've never seen a snapshot with a date in a local repository. I think it's always without date (at least until 2.1).

Russel Winder-4 wrote:

Deploy:
        Maven:  replaces the SNAPSHOT with the date in the form yyyymmdd.hhmmss-n

This is the default. Since I don't see much value in keeping old snapshots around, I always turn it off:

<snapshotRepository>
    ...
    <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
</snapshotRepository>

Cheers,
Peter