Summing up the versioning discussion

[Cantor, Scott]

> If we go with 3-digit snapshot versions, what is our solution to the
> problem that 2-digit snapshots solved ?

I don't know what problem it solved, but my guess is it has something to do with dependencies changing, and what the dependent project's POM points to.

Like if we had branch (3.0.1-SNAPSHOT) and trunk (3.1.0-SNAPSHOT) for OpenSAML, what is the IdP pointing to?

But I would assume the IdP is just picking one of those depending on what it's going to be shipped as next. So I don't see what the number of digits has to do with it.

I might speculate that this has to do with the fact that originally I think our parent POM actually included versions of our own projects. We got rid of that because it's just crazy complicated at that point.

-- Scott