[MNG-2199] Support version ranges in parent elements

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0-alpha-1, 3.5.0
• Component/s: Inheritance and Interpolation, POM, Reactor and Workspace
• Assignee: Christian Schulte
• Reporter: Christian Schulte
• Created: 03/Apr/06 16:27
• Updated: 28/Mar/20 14:57
• Resolved: 31/Jan/17 23:36

Description

It would be great if Maven supports version ranges when specifying parent artifacts in a multi-module build. Currently this does not work.

  <parent>
    <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
    <groupId>groupId</groupId>
    <version>[2.0, 2.0.1]</version>
  </parent>

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/groupId/artifactId/[2.0, 2.0.1]/artifactId-[2.0, 2.0.1].pom

Additionally it would be great if this

  <parent>
    <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
    <groupId>groupId</groupId>
    <version>[2.0, ${pom.version}]</version>
  </parent>

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/groupId/artifactId/[2.0, ${pom.version}]/artifactId-[2.0, ${pom.version}].pom

would also work, if the version is specified in the same pom.xml which defines this parent definition.

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning
• mentioned in: Page Loading...