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Handle omission of `version` field in dependency coordinates

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The fact that I either have to use a version of + or a dummy version for my dependencies isn’t exactly ideal. It’s a little confusing to people who are viewing my repository that the versions I’m providing in the dependencies block aren’t actually being used.

Describe the solution you’d like I’d like to be able to omit the version field entirely from my dependencies, for the purpose of clarity.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Additional context I’m not sure how feasible this is with Gradle’s architecture, but I figured I’d make the feature request anyway, since I couldn’t find an issue on the topic.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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serebitcommented, Oct 19, 2019

Good thing I don’t do Android development, then! Thanks for the tip.

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jmfayardcommented, Sep 3, 2020

refreshVersions will use _ as a placeholder and support new Gradle 6 dependencies features where you remove the versions after you added platform constraints from a BOM or gradle metatdata

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