On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 7:04 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 18:50:25 +0100, you wrote: > > >> and why gradle was retired ? is easy unretire it ? > > > >I am running gradle command right now as a coincidence . > > > >The upstream project is active. > >https://github.com/gradle/gradle > > > >We also might refer other distribution's spec files if we unretire. > >https://software.opensuse.org/package/gradle > >https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gradle > > They are unlikely to be of much help given how out of date they are. > Gradle is currently at 6.1.1 and Debian seems to be packaging 4.4.1 > and OpenSuse is at 3.2.1. Ubuntu seems to be 4.7 > openSUSE is currently on 4.4.1 as well[1]. [1]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/gradle/gradle.spec?expand=1 Rebasing to Gradle 5 or higher means Java 7 support is dropped. That probably held back a lot of people from doing Gradle upgrades for a while. Gradle 5 and 6 also does some significant changes to the Gradle Groovy-based DSL, which means that a lot of projects are likely struggling to upgrade. But the Gradle 5.0 release introduced the Kotlin-based DSL, and we don't even have Kotlin in Fedora... > The other message that posted the link to the email regarding the > removeal of Gradle indicated a lot more dependencies were added since > those versions were packaged. > > It is telling when essentially none of the open source operating > systems have a current gradle version (FreeBSD does, but they just > grab and wrap the binary from the Gradle website) that gets built from > source. What does it tell? To me, it says that FOSS platforms don't care about Java as much as they used to. We're clearly able to do stuff with Go and Rust, which are just as "anti-distribution" as Java is (based on what other people say). -- 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
