title: Beginner Question: Using spring initializr for previous versions or work around?
body: <p>I've been pretty fond of Spring Initializr for the convenience of it, but I <em>need to use Spring Boot 1.2.7</em> for a project and I'm not sure how to do that, but I'm thinking I could by just modding out the build.gradle or pom.xml files?</p>
  
  <p>I've done similar where there were unforeseen complications or other conventions, of which I wasn't aware.</p>
  
  <p>I'm a novice with good conceptual understanding of more recent versions and I have very little exposure to Gradle so far, so I'm looking for a beginner's solution and would appreciate any insights that would help me moving forward that I might have taken for granted using Initializr and supplied starter project files in the past.</p>