make the set-version script support the versison number when it is formatted with .SNAPSHOT and -SNAPSHOT
diff --git a/set-version.sh b/set-version.sh
index fa0509f..712d207 100755
--- a/set-version.sh
+++ b/set-version.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@
   reg="<version>(.*)-SNAPSHOT<\/version>"
   line=`awk '{if ($1 ~ /'$reg'/){print $1}}' < pom.xml | head -1`
   OLD_VERSION=`echo "$line" | awk 'match($0, "<version>(.*)-SNAPSHOT</version>", a) { print a[1] }'`
+  if [ -z "$OLD_VERSION" ]; then
+    reg="<version>(.*)\.SNAPSHOT<\/version>"
+    line=`awk '{if ($1 ~ /'$reg'/){print $1}}' < pom.xml | head -1`
+    OLD_VERSION=`echo "$line" | awk 'match($0, "<version>(.*)\.SNAPSHOT</version>", a) { print a[1] }'`
+    if [ -z "$OLD_VERSION" ]; then
+      echo "Unable to extract the old version from the pom.xml"
+      exit 2
+    fi
+  fi
 fi
 
 # reconstruct the version and buildNumber aka qualifier.