Version snapshots by date ?

[Tom Zeller]

> I guess since Maven doesn't really support versioning in the
> sense of "that's newer than this so I can use it as my dependency", it's
> all just strings. It's hard for me to keep that straight since RPM and
> such doesn't work like that.

Just noting that Maven supports dependency version ranges, as I think
you are aware, but not sure if that is compatible with -SNAPSHOT.

> Ian's point is true though, if we had a bundling/installing thing that
> would pull in the jars, it wouldn't matter much, we'd just post that
> "thing" as a package and note the svn revisions it covers if we needed to
> verify what was in it.

I can brush off the idp-distribution work, which bundled the various
artifacts + Jetty. Minus figuring out Jetty, not a big deal, and we
can continue to punt on Jetty.

Might be the right way.

> What if we had a separate "prerelease" Nexus repo and a Maven profile that
> used that for non-release builds? Then there's no contamination or mixing
> with real releases.

Neutral, my only concern would be avoiding making things more
complicated, where complicated = more semantic repositories.