On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 06:15 +1000, Adam Murdoch wrote:

> Russel Winder wrote: 
[ . . . ]
> > Real irritation of the moment is that versions of dependencies of Gradle
> > are now getting scattered around the place, some required but . . .
> > Also many of the version of dependencies used in Gradle are now really
> > very old.  Should there be a programme of moving to latest versions of
> > everything.  And should this be a continuous activity or something done
> > once a week, once a month, once a quarter, once a year, once a
> > decade, . . . 
> 
> Once per Gradle release would be good.

I think this would an excellent policy:  For each minor release (but not
for bug fix releases), the versions of all dependencies are reviewed
after each release, updated if it is felt appropriate and then, under
normal circumstances, left for the development cycle of that minor
release.
> 
-- 
Russel.
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