[ARCHETYPE-564] Archetype version range support

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Component/s: Archetypes
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alejandro Torras
• Created: 29/Apr/19 15:03
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 15:03

Description

Hi,

Currently I'm only able to fetch a versioned archetype with the following situations:

1. Not specifying an archetypeVersion at all.
2. Specifying a fixed version (i.e. 1.7.3).
3. Specifying the LATEST version.

I don't know if there are more choices about it, but IMHO I think it could be great to define a version range for archetypes (as it's currently done with dependencies). An example could be:

mvn -B archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.acme.archetype -DarchetypeArtifactId=plugin-archetype-rest -DartifactId=AppRest -DgroupId=com.acme.app -Dversion=1.0 '-DarchetypeVersion=(,1.8.0)'

 Thank you!