Thanks for the clarification. I'm usually the one pushing for using more plugins in our projects and even I had missed some of these nuances.
I was planning to finally revive my blog and one of the ideas was how to improve the CI/CD pipeline. Consistency and avoiding unintentional addition of transitive dependencies are big elements of that. I'll try to capture this and submit it your your review. Unfortunately that may be a few months down the road. :-( Bear On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM Piotr P. Karwasz <pi...@mailing.copernik.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > On 29.03.2025 14:20, Enrico Olivelli wrote: > > libraries that publish many artifacts that are meant to be used all with > > the same version publish a BOM (Bill of Materials) and then you import it > > in the dependencyManagement section > > > > Like this: > > https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-bom > > For completeness' sake Gradle has a feature to import the BOM into > dependency management if you use any artifact in the BOM: > > https://blog.gradle.org/alignment-with-gradle-module-metadata > > This feature might be useful in the Maven world too, although it can > also be replaced with [<version>] ranges. > > Piotr >
