[MNG-4732] Version string validation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-beta-2
• Component/s: POM
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Paul Gier
• Created: 14/Jul/10 14:53
• Updated: 24/Nov/10 08:31
• Resolved: 17/Jul/10 16:56

Description

If a / character is accidentally put into a version string it can cause some weird results. Maven installs and deploys some nameless (.jar, -sources.jar, etc) files without an error messages. This can be a bit tricky to track down, so it would be better if Maven did some validation on the version string to prevent the '/' character or other invalid characters.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-4717 Repository Ids containing ":" will lead to checksum errors on Windows machines
• is related to: MNG-2391 improve validation of POM elements
• relates to: MNG-4915 Versions in pom.xml are not checked for invalid characters