[UIMA-5265] uv3 changing versioning to avoid potential eclipse issues

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0SDK-alpha
• Component/s: Core Java Framework, Eclipse plugins
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 18/Jan/17 22:20
• Updated: 23/Jan/17 16:54
• Resolved: 23/Jan/17 16:54

Description

Our build toolset uses the maven build-helper plugin to convert between maven version conventions and OSGi conventions. That build helper plugin converts 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT to 1.2.3.SNAPSHOT. The hyphen (maven convention) is converted to a period (Eclipse convention). This seems to fall apart somewhat, when working with 1.2.3-alpha-SNAPSHOT - the coverter changes just the first hyphen it finds (left to right scan) to a period, giving for this example 1.2.3.alpha-SNAPSHOT.

There are other problems with this, see https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/core/MAVEN/maven_version.htm#MAVEN400.

To avoid these issues, I'm renaming 3.0.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT to 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT. The readme and announcement will say alpha.

Issue Links

• is superceded by: UIMA-5275 uv3 rename release to have a "-alpha" qualifier