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Naming the file .lock does not make it a lockfile. (I can't believe I have to write that sentence. I don't think you're discussing technical details in good fai

• pjmlp 5y ago
  Of course not, it fixes "... where you can read a file in the repo", because Maven already does everything else anyway.
  • morelisp 5y ago
    > Ruby Bundler was the first language / ecosystem to really get dependencies right. AFAIK, they were the first to have a lockfile locking the version of each dependency and a Gemfile with flexible version specification for dependencies, So other than having a lockfile and having a flexible version specification (and a sensible way to resolve multiple version requests), Maven did "it" first! ... what was "it" again?
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      Everything.