I'm relatively new to Gradle and have been trying to figure out how to set certain dependencies in my build.gradle file to download the latest release version restricted to a certain major version.
I understand that latest.release is able to retrieve the latest release version, but haven't seen any way that this can be restricted to a particular major version. I also understand that using 15.+ or [15.0, 16.0) would allow you to find the latest version with a major version of 15, release or SNAPSHOT, for a particular dependency. However, I want to be able to download the latest release version of a particular dependency within a specified range, ignoring any SNAPSHOT versions.
Would anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks
Clarifications:
Apparently this is not too difficult in the case in which snapshots and releases are in different repositories. However, in this case, I believe the snapshots and releases are in the same repository.
I am also using gradle 1.8
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