Is usage of "RELEASE" / "LATEST" in :mvn/version documented somewhere?

@maxp They are not really recommended.

They are not supported in Maven 3, I believe. They are only available in Maven 2 based tools.

RELEASE means the most recent non-snapshot release, so it can be an alpha, for example, or a "gold" version. LATEST means the most recent -SNAPSHOT release which can change frequently.

That said, I use RELEASE for dev-only tooling, as a "convenience" for it always being up-to-date but with the caveat that it could of course break any day. I never use LATEST.

Does that help @maxp?

@seancorfield - yes. Thank you/

Its possible to specify multiple deps files and have later ones override earlier ones right?

there are multiple deps files that override, but that is not an open set

the deps chain is: install deps.edn (now a resource in tools.deps.alpha), user deps.edn (~/.clojure/deps.edn), project deps.edn, -Sdeps

if you're using tools.deps directly, you can of course do whatever you like

it has tools for loading and merging deps.edn files

Thanks alex.

so if you want to override a project dep it would be something like "-Sdeps {:aliases {:foo {:override-deps ...}}} -A:foo"

you don't need an alias for that

can just -Sdeps '{:deps {the/lib {:mvn/version "whatever"}}}'

:deps merge in

you can do what you said too though

makes sense.