Since Maven 3.2.2 supports defining the pom's parent version with ranges, is it possible to configure m2e plugin to resolve the version range? How?
Edit 1: (2014-09-29 @ 09:50 AEST)
Scenario: Importing a maven project with the following parent definition into eclipse with m2e plugin (the project is not a module of its parent)
<parent>
<artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
<groupId>groupId</groupId>
<version>[1.0,1.1)</version>
</parent>
M2E plugin fails to resolve the version range, showing this error message in the POM editor:
Could not transfer artifact groupId:artifactId:pom:[1.0,1.1) from/to nexus-releases (http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/): Illegal character in path at index 82: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/groupId/artifactId/[1.0,1.1)/artifactId-[1.0,1.1).pom and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM
It works when running with Run as... > Maven install, see the log snippet below:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Downloading: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/groupId/artifactId/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloading: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/groupId/artifactId/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloading: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public-snapshot/groupId/artifactId/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloaded: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public-snapshot/groupId/artifactId/maven-metadata.xml (488 B at 0.8 KB/sec)
[INFO] Downloaded: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/groupId/artifactId/maven-metadata.xml (2 KB at 2.1 KB/sec)
[INFO] Downloaded: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/groupId/artifactId/maven-metadata.xml (2 KB at 2.1 KB/sec)
[INFO] Downloading: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/groupId/artifactId/[1.0,1.1)/artifactId-[1.0,1.1).pom
[INFO] Downloading: http://nexus.proxy/content/groups/public/groupId/artifactId/[1.0,1.1)/artifactId-[1.0,1.1).pom
PS.: The question is not whether or not this is a good practice, please refer to Benjamin's comment for some background.
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