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Re: [jdt-dev] maven repo pom issue
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I agree.
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Alexander Kriegisch
https://scrum-master.de
Arthur McGibbon schrieb am 22.12.2021 21:34 (GMT +07:00):
> The deployment of org.eclipse.jdt:org.eclipse.jdt.core:XXXX on Maven
> uses version ranges to specify it's dependencies e.g.
> org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.text:[3.6.0,4.0.0)
>
> The problem with this is that it's too open ended and when trying to
> retrieve the last version that supported jdk8 (version 3.25.0) the
> transitive dependencies bring in versions that are compiled for jdk11
> e.g. org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.text last jdk8 version was 3.9.0
> but version 3.12.0 is chosen which compiles to jdk11
>
> I can see this being an issue in the future on the switch from jdk11
> -> 17.
>
> So would it be possible to change to using strict dependency version
> numbers in the pom.xml deployed to Maven instead of ranges. Currently
> to get the jdk8 version working I have to specify all the transitive
> dependencies manually.
