[aether-users] Problem accessing snapshot artifacts

[Paolo Di Tommaso <paolo.ditommaso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all, 

I'm struggling with an application based on the Aether library which is unable to recognize local deployed snapshot artifacts. 

More in details my Gradle build uses the Maven plugin to deploy locally the produced artifacts. 

When the build is marked as SNAPSHOT, I've noticed that the artifacts produced end with a timestamp suffix, and it is missing the one ending with the -SNAPSHOT suffix. 

For example: 

maven-metadata.xml

maven-metadata.xml.md5

maven-metadata.xml.sha1

nextflow-0.16.3-20151129.152629-1.jar

nextflow-0.16.3-20151129.152629-1.jar.md5

nextflow-0.16.3-20151129.152629-1.jar.sha1

nextflow-0.16.3-20151129.152629-1.pom

nextflow-0.16.3-20151129.152629-1.pom.md5

nextflow-0.16.3-20151129.152629-1.pom.sha1  

As a consequence of this aether fails to find the required jar, that in this example would be `nextflow-0.16.3-SNAPSHOT.jar`. Is this a bug on the gradle maven plugin side or a problem with Aether which is unable to recognize the snapshot archive format?  

Cheers,

Paolo