Re: Re-bootstrapping sbt and modern Scala; the Scala 3 path is now open

Le 11/06/2026 à 11:36, David Goodenough a écrit :

> Except that Scala 3 is just in a transition (with 3.8 and the new LTS 
> now in RC1 3.9 which abandon the 2.13 library and move to a new library 
> rebuilt with Scala 3.  Sorry to throw a spanner in the works.

Good to know, thank you for the information.


> BTW, I am all for getting Scala as a proper debian package.  Although 
> actually all that are really needed is sbt and scala-cli and these two 
> will bring in the relevant libraries for you.

Not really, if we want to build an official Scala package the 
dependencies must be packaged first. We are not allowed to download 
unpackaged dependencies at build time.

Emmanuel Bourg