How does the Central Repository sort version numbers?
问题 I maintain an open source project and publish its releases to The Central Repository. I just published oshi-core-2.6 . The versioning in my pom.xml for that release reads: <groupId>com.github.dblock</groupId> <artifactId>oshi-core</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> My code requires Java 8 due to the Date/Time functions. To support a user's request, just prior to this release, I released a Java 7 compatible version using the threeten backport, with the following in its pom.xml : <groupId>com