Version snapshots by date ?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 12/11/13, 11:26 AM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
>
>Background : I have been wondering how to tag java-idp-testbed. My
>concern is that a tag of java-idp-testbed would depend on
>idp-core:3.0-SNAPSHOT, but as the snapshot dependency APIs vary over
>time that tag of java-idp-testbed would likely break. I think I want
>to tag java-idp-testbed and specify something like SNAPSHOT-YYYYMMDD
>as the version of all our dependencies via a property.

Yeah, I see that it wouldn't really work as is, not reliably anyway. Short
of just tagging everything with a prerelease version, which of course we
could also do.

>Of course, I could be wrong. I think an alternative might be to
>qualify snapshot versions somehow in the testbed POM, not sure.
>
>Am I making sense ?

The issue, yes. Pragmatically, I think we probably just tag opensaml and
the IdP in sync with the testbed as a quick solution.

-- Scott