semver: enforce/check

[jmini]

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Now that the project is following Semantic Versioning I think that it would be nice to add some checks at build time.

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In this area OSGi tooling provides a tool called "Baseline" (as part of the BND tools).

I found those two plugins that could be investigated:

• biz.aQute.bnd.builder. This plugin might be used to replace the OSGi Gradle plugin marked as deprecated with (see #747).
• com.liferay.baseline

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Maybe other approaches exist to ensure that SemVer is implemented in the Java world.

[mojavelinux]

:+1:

[jmini]

I have started to experiment with BND tools on an hello-world project (days are too short to achieve everything I would like). I will post some feedback here.

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Alternative:

I have seen a other open-source project using https://revapi.org/ to perform the checks at build time. Seems also really interesting.