{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gradle/gradle/issues/5591","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gradle/gradle","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gradle/gradle/issues/5591/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gradle/gradle/issues/5591/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gradle/gradle/issues/5591/events","html_url":"https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/5591","id":327991788,"node_id":"MDU6SXNzdWUzMjc5OTE3ODg=","number":5591,"title":"Constraint Doc Improvement Request (and maybe feature)","user":{"login":"xenoterracide","id":5517,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjU1MTc=","avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/5517?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide","html_url":"https://github.com/xenoterracide","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xenoterracide/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":281294573,"node_id":"MDU6TGFiZWwyODEyOTQ1NzM=","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gradle/gradle/labels/in:dependency-management","name":"in:dependency-management","color":"d4c5f9","default":false}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2018-05-31T04:41:07Z","updated_at":"2018-05-31T15:53:02Z","closed_at":"2018-05-31T15:53:01Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"Reading this https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/managing_transitive_dependencies.html\r\n\r\n```\r\n   constraints {\r\n        implementation('org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.3') {\r\n            because 'previous versions have a bug impacting this application'\r\n        }\r\n        implementation('commons-codec:commons-codec:1.11') {\r\n            because 'version 1.9 pulled from httpclient has bugs affecting this application'\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n```\r\n\r\nok, so do constraint versions fix the actual version, if 4.5.4 of httpclient is out will it still get pulled? how about 4.6? 5?  if not can I write `4.+`? what if I want version 4 or later including 5? does 4+ do that?\r\n\r\nhttps://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management_for_java_projects.html according this I'm pretty sure I can't do 4+ even if it were accurate\r\n\r\nI actually have a specific problem in regards to this I'm trying to understand the right way to resolve. Some of my test code relies specifically on assertj 3.8+ (including 3.9), I'd like to define my dep accurately as 3.8+ as 3.+ in theory will match a number of versions that wouldn't even compile, I also don't want to restrict to 3.8.+ because I have no reason to."}}
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