:thinking_face: ...why in this world they did that...

# gradle

[x80486]

🤔 ...why in this world they did that?!

[Czar]

That's a long story, you can read a long discussion at the link below. But that long story short, G team likes the idea of BOM but disagrees with M team on some finer points of it.
So Gradle 5's BOM feature is not really maven BOM support but rather a feature which is very similar to maven BOM.
Here's the discussion:
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/4979

[Czar]

That said, your problem might be caused by something different, this difference in implementation is just one possibility that came to my mind right away

[x80486]

I switched back and start using again the dependencyManagement block and the issue is gone, so I think that might be it...

[xenoterracide]

use enforcedPlatform instead of platform

[xenoterracide]

that said, if you’re using spring’s parent enforced platform won’t play nicely with kotlin 1.3

[xenoterracide]

because it forces the versions to act like maven

[xenoterracide]

except first one wins

[x80486]

Thanks for the tip...will give it a try.