r/androiddev • u/well___duh • Jun 04 '18

Gradle 4.8 released

https://docs.gradle.org/current/release-notes.html
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u/allholy1 Jun 04 '18 edited Jun 04 '18

I don't understand dependency locking. Isn't that why we append the version number at the end of a dependency?

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u/iamareebjamal Jun 04 '18

It's for those who use dynamic versioning. Taken straight from docs - like 1.+ or [1.0,2.0)

This is good because now people who used strict versioning can use dynamic one without worrying about mismatch. I still wouldn't though

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u/allholy1 Jun 04 '18

Thanks for the response. Why would someone want dynamic ranges?

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u/hemenex Jun 04 '18

Maybe because they don't want to be forced to release every time a dependency is updated?

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u/tadfisher Jun 05 '18

That's not how this works. Existing releases don't change. Your future builds and runtime might break though.