[buckminster-dev] Question about VersionSelector and base version number

[John Casey <jcasey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As some of you know, I've been working to refactor the Maven support for
Buckminster to the point where it will resolve artifacts in Maven 2
repositories.

I've been digging through the APIs, and I came across one question: does
the current MavenReaderType support things like
org.eclipse.buckminster.core with a version of 1.0? I see a switch
statement here that handles branch names, tags, snapshots without base
versions, and timestamps. Unless I'm misunderstanding, this leaves out
two cases: the "plain" version, like 1.0, and the snapshot with a base
version, like 1.0-SNAPSHOT.

How would I work with the VersionSelector in these two cases?

BTW, I had to take a little time and put together a small adapter API to
make it simpler to use Maven's own artifact API from within Buckminster
and other third-party apps. This is working now, and has been pretty
thoroughly tested (for its current simple level of functionality)...so
I'm ready to dig into Buckminster's Maven-handling code. So, you're
likely to hear a lot more of these newbie-level questions from me in the
near future! :-)

Thanks in advance,

John