[jira] [Closed] (BUILDR-636) Do not set hard version numbers for gem dependencies unless absolutely necessary

["Peter Donald (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-636?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Peter Donald closed BUILDR-636.
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       Resolution: Won't Fix
    Fix Version/s:     (was: 1.5)
                   1.4.10
         Assignee: Peter Donald

With the advent of bundler as a mechanism for managing all the dependencies, I think it is much less of an issue these days to use explicit dependencies. 

It is still difficult to get a set of libraries that are consistent and work across all different platforms, so I don't see our strategy for maintaining fixed versions changing in the near future. 

Thus I will close this issue until we can remove some of the more flakey libraries or the ruby libraries stabilize somewhat.
                
> Do not set hard version numbers for gem dependencies unless absolutely necessary
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BUILDR-636
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-636
>             Project: Buildr
>          Issue Type: Dependency upgrade
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.6, 1.4.7
>            Reporter: Russell Teabeault
>            Assignee: Peter Donald
>             Fix For: 1.4.10
>
>
> I am finding more and more that buildr's gem dependencies are causing conflicts with my own project's gem requirements.  This is typically because the version in the gemspec is set to a specific version instead of a minimum version.
> For example in buildr.gemspec,
> spec.add_dependency 'rake', '0.8.7'
> probably should be
> spec.add_dependency 'rake', '>= 0.8.7'
> unless there is a good reason that it only works with rake 0.8.7.

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