Allow more versions of gson?

[frankbenoit]

Currently only exactly gson 2.8.9 is allowed.
Would it be possible to allow a wider range?
if the semantic versioning is valid, even [2.8.9,3.0) should be ok.
This would simplify the coexistence with other bundles that have dependencies to gson.

[jonahgraham]

Hi @frankbenoit, that sounds reasonable. Please can you provide a patch?

[cdietrich]

https://github.com/eclipse/lsp4j/blob/32ad52691b2fcaef7011ffc6461641f1164dc1f2/gradle/versions.gradle#L19
isnt this one used for manifest too?

[frankbenoit]

Yes, but this is exactly 1 version. After 2.8.9 they released 2.9.0

[cdietrich]

and were there some breaking changes or do they do sem. versioning?

[frankbenoit]

The minimum supported Java version changes from 6 to 7.
https://github.com/google/gson/releases/tag/gson-parent-2.9.0

[nixel2007]

and were there some breaking changes or do they do sem. versioning?

Google? semver and no breaking changes? Ha! They can break backward compatibility in a patch release.

[cdietrich]

we will go with [2.9.0,2.10) for now