for example some people have to use

exclude

in gradle in order to use some library that depends on stdlib-1.0.6.

irus: Why so? Doesn't gradle automatically select the newest version?

I doesn't face this problem personaly, but people asked me help: 1. kotlin beta-38 2. gradle setup:

compileKotlin.doLast {
      kotlinOptions.languageVersion = "1.0"
      kotlinOptions.suppressWarnings = true
  }

3. compileKotlin, fails, and message tells this is because kotlin-stdlib 1.0.4

In Spring we use optional (similar to compileOnly) dependencies