On 5 Jul 2016, at 8:37, Stephen Connolly wrote:

> 1.0 is just a hint, hints can be overridden
> [1.0] is a hard requirement

The later also forces maven to download the metadata, and check the version 
exists in said metadata, which - even if its in the repository, but the 
meta-data is broken ( and that, sadly, happens often ), then you can't even 
download the dependency.



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