Maven Version Ranges - Case sensitivity

[adrian.brock]

One thing I found is that the qualifier being case sensitive is really confusing ;-)

1.0.0-beta-3 > 1.0.0-Beta-4 :-)
1.0.0-beta-3 > 1.0.0-GA

Maybe we should stick to all lower case qualifiers to avoid typos causing problems.

[adrian.brock]

Although I don't know how lower case qualifiers play with snapshots?

i.e.
1.0.0-beta-4 > 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT > 1.0.0-Beta-4
or is there a special rule?

[pmuir]

Surely we should stick to all upper case qualifiers as that is current convention?

[pgier]

Surely we should stick to all upper case qualifiers as that is current convention?

You mean for snapshots right? Yes, the maven convention for snapshots is to use -SNAPSHOT, and we're stuck with this because maven required it, and thinks that lower case "-snapshot" is actually a release.

The maven convention for releases, however is to use all lower case for the qualifier. For example, 1.1-alpha-1.

Currently our conventions is to used mixed case (http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossProductVersioning).

This will work fine with maven if we only specify exact version numbers. But with ranges we probably won't get the desired behaviour.