gradle reboot -- 2025W07 update

Good evening,

As I'm writing this, my current gradle 8 build is down to 2 (new) 
compilation errors in kotlin-dsl (from over 60 last week).

Le 2025-02-07 19:40, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
> 
> I'm already done with a few modules and I'm currently on the most 
> touchy one, kotlin-dsl.

This kept me busy for a while, as it required a fair amount of git 
archaeology to track the tormented history of some Kotlin stdlib 
features that had then to be either dropped, renamed, copy-pasted or 
reimplemented in Gradle source code. A few more features had to be 
backported into our Frankenkotlin, and I also had to rework the build of 
its backported assign-plugin to get jars that look like they could be 
usable.

I will probably be done with that Gradle module soon, and I think most 
other modules written in Kotlin are already patched so I expect to be 
able to test if that gradle will rebuild itself by next week, and then 
either debug it (probable outcome) or, if I'm really lucky, resume the 
packaging work. Watch my repositories on salsa for updates!

Cheers,