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maven-versions-plugin: How to ignore alpha, beta, release candidate, and milestone versions

Introduction

By default, maven does not ignore versions ending with qualifier strings when searching for the latest version of an artifact.

For example, versions ending with -alpha, -beta3, -M-2, and -RC1 will be considered as valid upgrade candidates.

Consider the case of your project having a dependency on version 3.2.1 of a certain artifact and 3.3.0-beta is released. The maven-versions-plugin will, by default, consider that to be valid upgrade.

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#!/bin/bash

# NAME
#      deps_to_classpath - resolve dependencies and print classpath
#
# SYNOPSIS
#      deps_to_classpath [OPTIONS] DEP...
#
# EXAMPLE
#      Suppose you are evaluating different HTML parsers to use with saxon. You

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Unofficial Bash Strict Mode

Sometimes a programming language has a "strict mode" to restrict unsafe constructs. E.g., Perl has use strict, Javascript has "use strict", and Visual Basic has Option Strict. But what about bash? Well, bash doesn't have a strict mode as such, but it does have an unofficial strict mode:

set -euo pipefail

set -e

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#############################################################################
#                     BEGIN MODERN PERL BOILERPLATE                         #
#############################################################################

# Use perl v5.16.3
# (We're tracking RHEL7 as our baseline)
# Note:
# - `use v5.12` or higher implies `use strict`
#   https://stackoverflow.com/q/6050031
#   https://perldoc.perl.org/feature

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Checking for existence of jq command ..... Y
Checking for existence of rpm2cpio command ..... Y
Checking for existence of cpio command ..... Y
You are running Fedora 38
You are running Gnome 44
There are 43 packages matching the pattern 'gnome-shell-extension-*'
    1 gnome-shell-extension-appindicator-0:53-1.fc38.noarch
    2 gnome-shell-extension-apps-menu-0:44.0-1.fc38.noarch
    3 gnome-shell-extension-argos-0:3^20220712git1180568-2.fc38.noarch
    4 gnome-shell-extension-auto-move-windows-0:44.0-1.fc38.noarch

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GDoc bug?

I've found that pasting into a Google Document produces an unexpected result.

Minimal test case

Copy the following minimal test case:

A link

and paste it into a GDoc.

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Quick minimal config for shell and vim

For when a full dotfiles setup is overkill.

Installation Instructions

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/robin-a-meade/b83dd635076993c4c25b7115d0b5da32/raw/install.sh | bash

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/main.js
/node_modules
/package-lock.json

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How to use ESM modules with NodeJS

Excerise 1: Clone the gist and run the examples

1. Create a temporary directory and cd into it
2. Clone the gist
3. Run the examples

cd "$(mktemp -d)"
git clone git@gist.github.com:4ba7867a771de384b66b512d1847de61.git .