In Debian and Ubuntu the pool of jars do not often have numbers.  So for
example:

|> ll /usr/share/groovy/lib
total 3384
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-03-03 07:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 2008-11-25 18:42 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 2009-03-03 07:18 ant.jar -> ../../java/ant.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 2009-03-03 07:18 ant-junit.jar -> 
../../java/ant-junit.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      27 2009-03-03 07:18 ant-launcher.jar -> 
../../java/ant-launcher.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 2009-03-03 07:18 antlr.jar -> 
../../java/antlr.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 2009-03-03 07:18 asm2-analysis.jar -> 
../../java/asm2-analysis.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 2009-03-03 07:18 asm2.jar -> ../../java/asm2.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 2009-03-03 07:18 asm2-tree.jar -> 
../../java/asm2-tree.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 2009-03-03 07:18 asm2-util.jar -> 
../../java/asm2-util.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 2009-03-03 07:18 bsf.jar -> ../../java/bsf.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 2009-03-03 07:18 commons-cli.jar -> 
../../java/commons-cli.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      30 2009-03-03 07:18 commons-logging.jar -> 
../../java/commons-logging.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3450305 2009-03-03 05:09 groovy-1.6.0.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 2009-03-03 07:18 jline.jar -> 
../../java/jline.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      22 2009-03-03 07:18 jsp-api.jar -> 
../../java/jsp-api.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 2009-03-03 07:18 junit4.jar -> 
../../java/junit4.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 2009-03-03 07:18 mockobjects-core.jar -> 
../../java/mockobjects-core.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 2009-03-03 07:18 regexp.jar -> 
../../java/regexp.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 2009-03-03 07:18 servlet-api.jar -> 
../../java/servlet-api.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      22 2009-03-03 07:18 xstream.jar -> 
../../java/xstream.jar

So how can a flat file resolver be used to work with the jars in this
directory.  As far as I know at the moment Gradle insists that a version
number be given in a specification of a dependency.

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