Re: gradle reboot -- 2024W48 update

Good evening,

Le 2024-11-22 18:25, [email protected] a écrit :
> Next week I will start working on a detailed action plan and PoC for 
> the rebootstrap, in between build runs and fixups.

Updating and then fixing the builds of various packages (not all of them 
direct dependencies of Gradle) kept me busier than expected, and thus 
the writing hasn't progressed much, though the reading and the thinking 
have. I added a bunch of links to the bottom of wip/README [1] if you 
are interested, and commented on a few GitHub issues for some shameless 
self-advertising.

The build progressed a bit and now fails on the outdated Groovy; my 
current plan is to attempt to patch Gradle to make it build with the 
version currently in Debian, and make it work at least enough to be able 
to rebuild both Gradle itself and newer versions of Groovy with it.

I also plan to patch Gradle 4.4.1 to make it work with the newer 
libkryo-java (that should be rather trivial) and libnative-platform-java 
and -jni (easy enough at first sight), to make the transition easier. I 
attempted the reverse (patching libraries to implement 
retrocompatibility) but that's not possible at least with kryo that 
changed return types of methods keeping the same names and argument 
types.

I managed to get IDEA to sync the patched project now without errors and 
even in offline mode, which should help me with further patching deep 
into the internals of the beast, and you now have a shiny new 
debian/rules target to help you if you want to try that at home.

Dependencies and reverse dependencies are now detailed in their own 
wip/document.md, that was a fairly tedious job for the dependencies but 
hopefully worth it, it allowed me to fix a few mistakes and learn a few 
things about Kotlin. There are actually much fewer direct dependencies 
than I thought initially, and also more of them that are up-to-date than 
I thought.

I registered on mentors.debian.net and published packages there [2] 
(though I haven't uploaded all of them yet) if you want to try them 
without rebuilding, leave a review or, if you dare, upload the new 
`kryo` that currently breaks all two of its two reverse dependencies to 
experimental ^ ^.

As usual, comments and contributions are welcome.

Cheers,


[1]: 
https://salsa.debian.org/jpd/gradle/-/blob/upgrade-to-8.11.1-wip/debian/wip/README.md
[2]: https://mentors.debian.net/packages/uploader/[email protected]/