On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 6:23 AM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > netcdf-java[1] uses the Gradle build system, and is required to update > hdfview[2] to the latest version. Gradle, however, was retired[3] as > "out of date, broken, fails to build, basically unmaintainable". > > Now, I know that following our system, one must package Gradle first but > given the retirement comment, packaging and then maintaining it does not > appear a simple task, and for one dependency only, it seems overkill. > > Is there perhaps a way of bypassing that somehow? For example, is there > a way to use good old Maven to build a Gradle based project? > > [1] https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-java/5.2/userguide/building_from_source.html > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797361 > [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gradle/blob/master/f/dead.package > Gradle is a blocker for a lot of projects, unfortunately. Not supporting what appears to be one of the preferred build tools in the Java ecosystem has made things quite painful... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
