CDKTF should check if the pre-built providers peer dependency matches the installed cdktf version

[DanielMSchmidt]

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Description

When working with pre-built providers in Java it can happen that maven installs a cdktf version that not matches what is specified in the pom.xml, because of outdated peer dependencies requiring an older version. To make a user aware of this we need a check reminding folks to upgrade.

References

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/cdk-not-respecting-pom-xml/45418/7

[ansgarm]

Some notes on other languages:

For Python (pip and pipenv) and Go, there appears to be no warning when installing an older pre-built provider (i.e. targeting an older CDKTF version) – but at least it does not fall back to an older CDKTF version than specified like Maven does 😅

For NPM and Dotnet it already prints an error when trying to install without matching peer dependencies 👍