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In the build.sbt definition of a Scala project, is it possible to define the minimum version of sbt that is required to build the project?
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sbt uses that same version of Scala to compile the build definitions that you write for your project because they use sbt APIs. This version of Scala is fixed for a specific sbt release and cannot be changed. For sbt 1.7. 1, this version is Scala 2.12.
sbt is an open-source build tool for Scala and Java projects, similar to Apache's Maven and Ant.
sbt is a popular tool for compiling, running, and testing Scala projects of any size. Using a build tool such as sbt (or Maven/Gradle) becomes essential once you create projects with dependencies or more than one code file.
project/build.properties allows you to force sbt to use particular version. If current version of installed sbt is different - sbt itself will download (if needed) the version you've specified there:
sbt.version=0.12.0
See, Hello for instance. So actually you may have installed several versions of sbt in your system - it's just jars, that placed in .sbt/boot/scala-{scala.version required by this sbt}/org.scala-sbt/sbt/{sbt.version} folder. Sbt executable actually looks for version specified in project/build.properties or (if it's not specified) highest version installed in the system.
P.S. From sbt-launcher perspective, sbt is only one dependency with small non-intersecting others like ansi.jar, so specifying the range of versions like [0.13.1, 0.13.8] have no much sense as it would be efective only for conflicting transitive deps. Otherwise it's enough to specify higher possible version (which would compile) - you may even choose some version that you already have (and update project's sbt that way).
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