use version expressions for dependency declarations

[keturn]

• Is it worth keeping the existing VersionRange class at all, or should we convert entirely?
• Instead of building an expression out of minVersion, should we allow module metadata to define its own expression?
  • We would need to use the Maven-style expressions in that case in order for compile-time dependency resolution to still work.

Follow-up from #101.

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[keturn]

ah, the Maven expressions are implemented in the antilaby fork. That explains why I couldn't find them in the upstream zafarkhaja sources.

Unfortunately, the confusing incrementMajorVersion behavior is also from the antilaby fork AntiLaby/jsemver@f9fee42

"1.0.0-alpha".incrementMajorVersion() == "1.0.0"
"1.2.0-alpha".incrementMajorVersion() == "2.0.0"

without really any attached issue documentation to explain why.

[keturn]

here is a different implementation entirely: https://github.com/vdurmont/semver4j

Its Ivy-mode looks like it is intended to be gradle-compatible.