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does java's `-release` check if a compile time dependency requires a greater version of java? e.g. I'm releasing against java 11 but I have a dependency that uses 17. If it does not, is there a way to do that?

I seem to recall some dependency I've encountered requires 17, but I think it was a plugin. I'm also using 21 for generating javadoc, so ...

I don't think `-release` will do that but Gradle dependency resolution should? (assuming your dependencies have Gradle metadata)

Now how does Gradle dependency resolution knows what version of Java to use, I don't know

But it works:
```tasks.withType&lt;JavaCompile&gt;().configureEach {
  options.release.set(8)
}
dependencies {
  implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot:3.3.5")
}```


```Execution failed for task ':compileJava'.
&gt; Could not resolve all files for configuration ':compileClasspath'.
   &gt; Could not resolve org.springframework.boot:spring-boot:3.3.5.
     Required by:
         root project :
      &gt; Dependency resolution is looking for a library compatible with JVM runtime version 8, but 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot:3.3.5' is only compatible with JVM runtime version 17 or newer.```

So to answer your question, it should work fine

Maybe pom has a similar thing? (not sure)

I think it probably does, at the same time you probably have to set it explicitly