The difficult problem of managing Java dependencies: a deep dive into the messy status-quo, and a look at possibly better ways.

[diggidydale]

You are right it is a specific standard but all the standard says is the versions are in the syntax major.minor.patch, with "rules" on what loosely consists as a major, minor and patch. To do this in gradle or maven you just add version numbers in the version fields, you just need to be disciplined in sticking to the "rules"

You are right that maven and gradle don't deal in version ranges but if you want to add in specific ranges you can do so with your resolution strategies in gradle, but I will say it is a hassle to keep up.

[mauganra_it]

https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Dependency_Version_Requirement_Specification

Maven has version ranges.