[news.eclipse.technology.buckminster] Re: buckminster and maven reposito

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Edwin,
Great! Thanks a lot. Would you mind attaching the files to a Bugzilla instead? I could do it for you 
of course, but you should get the credit for this so it's better if it has your name on it.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren



Edwin Park wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I'm attaching a first cut at a patch for this. The changes I made are 
> localized to 
> org.eclipse.buckminster.maven.internal.Maven2VersionFinder.java. I am 
> attaching the new class as well as a diff against r2881. I have tested 
> this against http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 and against Artifactory. It 
> works fine for release versions of artifacts, but doesn't work properly 
> for SNAPSHOT versions at the moment. The correct SNAPSHOT artifact URLs 
> are being generated, but somehow it still fails to match against the 
> snapshot versions. I'm guessing that this has something to do with the 
> way the version comparison mechanism works, which I don't really 
> understand that well so I'd appreciate some guidance on that front. I'd 
> appreciate any other comments you had on this as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Edwin