[MRM-1843] provide mechanism to obtain the latest version of an artifact

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: jieryn
• Created: 16/May/14 10:22
• Updated: 21/May/14 00:24
• Resolved: 21/May/14 00:24

Description

It will be very useful and convenient for a user to be able to download the "latest" version of an artifact. Sonatype Nexus provides such a mechanism, please see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7911620/using-the-nexus-rest-api-to-get-latest-artifact-version-for-given-groupid-artfic and https://maven.java.net/nexus-core-documentation-plugin/core/docs/rest.artifact.maven.redirect.html

Thanks!