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package org.apache.maven.mercury.artifact.version;

import org.apache.maven.mercury.artifact.api.Configurable;

/**
 * interface to the version range processor. To be implemented for various syntaxes/interpreters
 *
 * @author Oleg Gusakov
 * @version $Id: VersionRange.java 744245 2009-02-13 21:23:44Z hboutemy $
 */
public interface VersionRange
    extends Configurable
{
    /**
     * returns true if the supplied version fits into the range
     *
     * @param version to test
     * @return
     */
    public boolean includes( String version );

    /**
     * @return true if the range is good old single version, not a true range
     */
    public boolean isSingleton();
}