> this kind of multi-version dependency is discouraged, and at Google we completely ban it for Java Good to hear. It takes a surprising lot of backbone to res

> this kind of multi-version dependency is discouraged, and at Google we completely ban it for Java Good to hear. It takes a surprising lot of backbone to resist the call to "just do" tortured things to fix a problem--sometimes I play the bad guy, saying "no, that's stupid, figure out a better way" but yet we see repackaged Java classes shipping here and there...