Soon you guys are gonna fight about transitive deps. I encourage you to take a fresh look at everything.
We have a huge project that we have to harmonize deps across. We want our deps up to date - bugs, security issues, debt, pain with more time, deps that actually do count on min versions of the deps they have. There are people working towards good dep management. You need to stop working against. It's not a long term strategy. Gradle is a lot more approachable and usable for a dev - it has tons of tools to help with god dep management. If you want my opinion, what we do is not good dep management at all. I was only for it, because I was defending against the insanity I see so often with mvn. But I don't see that insanity in Gradle. - Mark
