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Hii Markus!
I haven't followed all the discussions about the progress of introducing Kotlin
to Debian. This appears to be the major obstacle to maintain future Gradle >releases anyway. Where do we stand here?
Me and Samyak Jain had started on Gradle and Kotlin simultaneously last
year. And kotlin right now is blocked by Kotlin-dsl plugin from Gradle.
Which I as I mentioned, is blocked by enterprise plugin.
I had a look at the Fedora packaging and it seems they have already given up a few years ago?
ooof! I will ask in Fedora IRC channels. Recently joined them for kernel testing week.
At best gradle could be shipped in non-free if the license of the proprietary plugin allows
redistribution.
We will have to check that with upstream.
Moving gradle to non-free might seem as the easiest solution but many Java packages would no longer
be available in Debian main.
Hence this mail to java-team.
In my opinion, before we talk about upgrading gradle in Debian, we should >finally package Kotlin. This appears to be the major blocker at the moment. Kotlin is blocked by Gradle. hehe.
After that we could take smaller steps by upgrading only to gradle 5.x or any >minor version in between that makes it easier to maintain this build system. The main problem with that approach is, any version after 4.4.1 (which
is currently in Debian) is written in kotlin and not in goovy. meaning,
it uses build.gradle.kts files instead of build.gradle ones.
So we anyway cannot use existing Gradle and tools to build it. so we
might as well go with latest available gradle which is written in
kotlin. This is why we started with Gradle 6.4.1 last year.
Packaging gradle probably will never be perfect.
If only upstream will help us...
While working on that we should identify the major blockers of maintaining >future gradle versions and voice our concerns about the non-free components in >gradle with the upstream developers.
Most of the components which are ommited can be found in debian/patches/
like Google Apis, AWS SDK for java, etc. Those along with hard coded
version numbers of artifacts used are blockers.
I got Gradle actually working without enterprise-plugin and scala
features last year. You can find the instructions here.[1] The binary
which we get after first online build should be capable of running a
second build in offline mode. That would happen if it didn't fail due to mis-match of version numbers.
This hard coding of version numbers in gradle/dependencies.gradle file
is a major concern for future maintenance.
Otherwise we also can try to strip away those components, >if technically possible, and try to maintain a core gradle package
that just works for our main purpose of building packages from source. Stripping components away has been the way 4.4.1 was packaged. But it
has become tedious to update. But frankly we don't have any other choice
here.
We also have the option to use a custom build system, just using Ant or Maven >instead of Gradle for affected packages. Of course this requires additional >developer time and the question is, would it really help us in the long-term? +1
Good start. Let's discuss this on this mailing list which is easier to follow >than IRC.
Sure. We in Android-tools-team are more active on IRC. And we will be discussing this there by the end of this month. in our monthly meet.
Please join us, we can discuss this there too. I will ask Samyak to send
an invite to java team as well.
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/android-tools-team/admin/-/issues/16#note_190550
Thanks!
Raman Sarda
https://theloudspeaker.social
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