[MNG-5730] Provide a tool to test Maven version parsing and comparison

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.5
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Herve Boutemy
• Created: 30/Nov/14 17:53
• Updated: 28/Mar/20 17:58
• Resolved: 30/Nov/14 18:14

Description

At the moment, when someone thinks there is a problem, the only way to investigate is to write new unit tests in ComparableVersionTest

a little CLI tool to display the parsed version (in its canonical form) and comparing arguments would be useful

$ java -jar maven-artifact-*.jar 3.2.4-alpha-1 3.2.4-SNAPSHOT 3.2.4.0
Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form) and comparison result:
1. 3.2.4-alpha-1 == 3.2.4.alpha.1
   3.2.4-alpha-1 < 3.2.4-SNAPSHOT
2. 3.2.4-SNAPSHOT == 3.2.4.snapshot
   3.2.4-SNAPSHOT < 3.2.4.0
3. 3.2.4.0 == 3.2.4

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-5568 ComparableVersion's breaks contract for Comparable, in some edgecases the comparisons are not transitive