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- It only supports the following schemes:
- 'positiveInteger-buildnumber' where buildnumber doesn't start with '0' and has to be
- 'positiveinteger-qualifier'
- positiveInteger(.positiveInteger(.positiveInteger))-(buildNr|qualifier)
- Inconsistent/unintuitive parsing:
Wiki Markup in something-X, where X is \[1..9\], X will be a buildnumber
- in something-0X, where X is any string, '0X' will be a qualifier
- something.0something will yield 0.0.0.0-something.0something
- something.NaN will also yield 0.0.0.0-something.NaN
- getBuildNumber returns '0' when no buildnumber is specified, yet you can never specify 0 as a buildnumber
- qualifiers are sorted lexically
- if a qualifier is a prefix of another, the longest shorter one wins is considered newer (example:'1.0-alpha10' is considered older than '1.0-alpha2alpha1')
Proposal
I'm proposing the following implementation: GenericArtifactVersion.java (unit test: GenericArtifactVersionTest.java)
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