gradle reboot -- 2025W09 update

Good evening,

After some more heavy surgery our FrankenKotlin is not doing too well 
:/.

Le 21/02/2025 à 18:15, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
> backport the whole scripting plugin from Kotlin 1.3.50 into our 
> FrankenKotlin and see how it goes

That pulled in more things than I expected but was still marginally 
manageable, though I haven't (yet?) fixed a few things that broke in the 
process, including the REPL console and the ability for that compiler to 
rebuild itself. Some minor progresses were made and gradle's script 
compiler is now going a bit further into code generation, but while 
investigating the current crashes I discovered that it was caused by 
incorrectly generated code in Kotlin plugins, and that code is generated 
by the "regular" Kotlin 1.3.31 (I checked my Kotlin builds as far back 
as December and they are almost all affected). I'm suspecting some 
interference caused by the JDK 21, so I'm now testing clean rebuilds and 
using diffoscope and procyon to find out the extent of damages. This 
issue didn't cause compiler rebuilds to fail so far, but the scripting 
code is definitely affected.

Picking features and fixes in Kotlin's git history wasn't too difficult, 
which is rather good news for its maintainability as a stable package.

Next I will have to fix that compiler and try again to see if I can 
start to get some gradle build script class files (correctly) generated 
or if it's time to give up on that approach and start packaging Kotlin 
2.0.21.

Cheers,