getting the latest release version of a dependency

 

What would be the easiest way to tell Gradle the following:

Retrieve 'junit' dependency and take its latest 'release' version.

Managing Maven and Ivy repositories is sort of new to me. I tried the following steps and they result in Could not resolve dependency ... error:

  • Write compile "junit:junit:latest.release" with repositories set to only mavenCentral() (however, it works if I say "junit:junit:4.10").

  • Write compile "junit:junit:latest.release" with repository set the following way: 

    ivy {
    // I also tried 'http://maven.org' and other possible variants.           
    url "http://repo1.maven.org" 
    layout "maven"
}

  • Attempted to use Spring Source Ivy repository: 

    ivy {
    artifactPattern "http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/libraries/release/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"
    ivyPattern "http://repository.springsource.com/ivy/libraries/release/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"
}

    • Maybe I misunderstand something. Why would getting the latest version of the dependency be such a hard task?

    Gradle currently does not supports Maven's RELEASE (which is rarely used and deprecated) but it does support Ivy's latest.release . However, the general recommendation is to build against exact versions. Otherwise, the build can become a lottery.

    It can be quite useful sometimes to get the latest release - if for example you release often your own dependencies.

    You can get the latest version like 

    compile "junit:junit:+"

    or better specify at least the major version like 

    compile "junit:junit:4.+"

    Check out the Gradle-Versions-Plugin. It does exactly what you want: https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin

    For the installation, see the github page. Basically you need to add these two lines to your build.gradle - project file: 

    apply plugin: 'com.github.ben-manes.versions'

buildscript {
    [...]
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.github.ben-manes:gradle-versions-plugin:0.8'
        [...]
    }
}
[...]

    Then you can use the plugin, by running this command in terminal in your project dir: 

    ./gradlew dependencyUpdates -Drevision=release

    And it will show you which dependencies are outdated!

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