[BUILDR-274] Support dependency version ranges for transitive dependencies

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: Wish List
• Component/s: Dependency management
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Grotzke
• Created: 10/Apr/09 20:34
• Updated: 14/Feb/17 07:41

Description

It seems that right now dependency version ranges as shown here [1] are not supported.

A version range is e.g. used by ehcache-web ([2]), so that when I use
transitive('net.sf.ehcache:ehcache-web:jar:1.6.0-beta2')
buildr fails with this error:
Failed to download net.sf.ehcache:ehcache:pom:[1.6.0-beta4,], tried the following repositories...

It would be great to have support for version ranges, otherwise some libs cannot be used with transitive().

[1] http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-version-ranges.html
[2] http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/sf/ehcache/ehcache-web/1.6.0-beta2/ehcache-web-1.6.0-beta2.pom