version numbering inconsistency

[Tom Zeller]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
> On 10/7/14 11:46 AM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>>
>> If we're able to agree that that is in fact what our current strategy
>> is/was, then we can at least have the discussion later about how to fix
>> it. I just re-read the page and it's pretty unambiguous to me that he was
>> intending that 2.0-SNAPSHOT would be both the version prior to 2.0.0 and
>> then later the version after. Since both can't be right...
>
> Yes, that's my understanding as well, at least in terms of what Chad was
> thinking.  E.g. 2.0-SNAPSHOT was intended to be used prior to all
> releases that would be 2.0.x.

Yes, that's my understanding as well, and in my experience is not
always compatible with some reasonably useful Maven plugins like the
Versions Maven Plugin.