Re: Maven Artifact JDK Suffix

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:04:54 +0300, Vladimir Sitnikov
<sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> a JDK 9. Why not name it X.jre8 so that we're ready for when that day
>> comes?
>
> The idea is "unsuffixed is the latest version while others being
> second-class citizens".
> When jdk9 comes, a new project is added for jre8, and unsuffixed
> becomes jre9 only.
> Well, I think we can make jre8 explicit and avoid unsuffixed versions.
> I do not have strong option there.

But it makes it less intuitive; a newer version of the same dependency
will suddenly stop working with an incompatible class version error. What
if I am on the latest jre8 version when Java 9 is out, and I need to go
back to an earlier version: then I need to track when the switch from
unsuffixed Java 8 to suffixed Java 8 version occurred to be able to
downgrade (granted, that is a bit less common scenario).

On the other hand, for Jaybird somewhere in the past someone outside the
Firebird project released Jaybird 2.1.6 on maven without a suffix, and it
has still a relatively big share of the downloads. I am unsure why that is.
I am still considering whether I should **also** release the highest
version unsuffixed (next to the suffixed version).

Mark