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Max Spring
Max Spring

Reputation: 1140

New Maven snapshots for already released artifacts

Is there a good reason to continue deploying newer snapshots, if there's already a released artifact of the same version?

Concretely: There's already xyz-1.0
There's projects continuing to have xyz-1.0-SNAPSHOT dependencies.

It appears wrong to me, but maybe there is some reason behind this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 112

Answers (2)

Rich Seller
Rich Seller

Reputation: 84038

The only time that a project should be deploying snapshots after a release version has been deployed is if it were an alpha, beta, milestone or release candidate.

As you have suggested the projects in question are doing things wrong. After the xyz-1.0 release the SNAPSHOT versions should be updated to the next development version, 1.0.1, 1.1, or 2.0.

Upvotes: 1

Ben L.
Ben L.

Reputation: 817

If 1.0 has already been released, the snapshot should not be built any longer and you should probably remove the snapshot from your repository. If new development starts, it should be on 1.1-SNAPSHOT (or 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT, however you decide to do your versioning).

Upvotes: 1

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