From: David Elsing <david.elsing@posteo.net>
To: "Noé Lopez" <noe@xn--no-cja.eu>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Packaging a gradle application
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 22:03:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7y8r0did3w.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875xvmwq9q.fsf@xn--no-cja.eu>
Hi,
Noé Lopez via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
<guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Today I thought I'd try to package Mindustry, a libre game I like made
> in Java. It uses the gradle build system, and I couldn't find any
> trace of gradle in the guix sources or mailing lists.
> [...]
> Is there something stopping us from using gradle to build packages or
> has it just not been done before ?
Gradle is very hard to bootstrap from source [1,2] and upstream does not
have plans to change that [3]. This is also why only a very old version
is packaged in Debian [4,5]. I don't know whether anyone is working on
it, that is just why I had read.
> Thanks in advance
> Noé Lopez
Cheers,
David
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00402.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2022/08/msg00010.html
[3] https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/26516
[4] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gradle
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/kotlin/-/issues/15
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