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		djha-skin on Jan 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go: What we got right, what we got wrong Russ Cox's "minimum version selection" was a complete reinvention of Apache Ivy's "Latest" version resolver. They basically reinvented maven, if you examine the version resolution plumbing of both tools.

nulltype on Jan 5, 2024 [–]

Looking at https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/... I don't see how this is the same as minimal version selection.

djha-skin on Jan 6, 2024 | [–]

Wrong page.

I'm referring to this page: https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings...

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