Gradle: Problems with '+' sign in version number

[Scrappers-glitch]

I have tested the new Minie-4.9.0+bare and Minie-4.9.0+ano parts of Minie library on android, and i found out that the bare part always replaces the ano part if both are added as dependencies, i suspect the problem comes from using '+' sign in declaring minie parts, in which gradle consumes it as a different version of minie, so a suggestion for the next release and for an eventual fix is to omit the '+' sign from minie parts and replace it by library-module:version classical way of defining library parts.

So, this is better :

implementation "com.github.stephengold:Minie-bare:5.x.x"
implementation "com.github.stephengold:Minie-ano:5.x.x"

instead of this :

implementation "com.github.stephengold:Minie:5.x.x+bare"
implementation "com.github.stephengold:Minie:5.x.x+bare"

By doing this, you are actually creating different artificatId names under the hood under the same library.

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[stephengold]

The renaming can take place with the next release.

1. Have you verified that this issue occurs with more recent versions of Gradle, such as 6.9.2?
2. Have you verified that renaming one of the libraries solves the issue?

[Scrappers-glitch]

1. The issue (and the warning against the usage of '+" sign in version number) persists with gradle-6.9.2 and gradle-7.0.
2. The problem is with the part version makes it invalid, its not with the lib name, the issue is resolved when using :

implementation 'com.github.stephengold:Minie:4.9.0'

OR when adding the contents or Minie+ano manually in the android lib folder.

3. The problem also occurs with any gradle non-android project (desktop project), if i tried to add both bare and ano parts, the ano is ignored, even though the warning doesn't exist on a non-android project.

[Scrappers-glitch]

If you want to separate android natives from Minie, then you shouldn't use the '+' sign in version numbers, gradle will anticipate this as different versions of a same thing (which is not the case), instead it's better for new Minie versions to use a different modular expression with a dash Minie-bare:5.x.x and Minie-ano:5.x.x.

[stephengold]

For Minie v5, I've created an Android-only version of the library (Minie-5.0.0+droid) that includes both the java classes and the native libraries. As the name suggests, this is a version of Minie-5.0.0 that's specifically for Android projects. That should solve this issue.

@Scrappers-glitch please verify so I can close this issue.

[stephengold]

No response after a month, so I'll assume the solution is satisfactory.

[Scrappers-glitch]

No response after a month, so I'll assume the solution is satisfactory.

Hello @sgold, sorry for very late reply, I was very busy those last two months, besides cleaning out my notifications that got cluttered up, I haven't tested these changes yet on android to assure the issue is resolved, but we can just keep this closed for now, I will be back on jme the next month or so and i will use Minie on android, so if something happens about this issue, we can reopen it...thanks for the update !