Hey everyone!
I am trying to update gradle to version 6.4.1 as a part of my project for GSoC
2020. We currently have 4.4.1 in archives. I have fixed major issues and
converted all the patches to Kotlin as gradle shifted from Groovy to Koltin
after 4.4.1. Some of the patches have been removed from series as they were no
longer needed. But as the jump is major, there have been other changes in
Gradle, e.g: using the latest zinc [1]. Which is kinda a blocker right now for
the upgrade. I am currently stuck on following error while building[2]. I have
tried to patch out scala and zinc related stuff in this patch[3] but I am still
stuck. I have tried to revert the files to the state they were before new zinc
was used in gradle. As far as I can see, the file ZincScalaCompilerFactory.java
is in the same state as in 4.4.1. But I still land on the same error. It would
be great if someone could help me out here a little. I am tracking all the
progress in this issue on salsa[4]. Working repository is the fork of Gradle on
salsa under my namespace.[5] I have considered upgrading sbt in archives to
latest version as zinc comes along with sbt since sbt 1.0 but upgrading sbt is
another mammoth task and will require a lot of time. Gradle upgrade has already
been in works for almost 2 months now and I want to complete it as fast as I
can since the project has other higher goals.
Gradle depends on itself so we need a bootstrap package. I have created
it using the bootstrap script present in the source and uploaded here on
salsa[6] It can be used when building gradle from source.
[1] https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/8485
(https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/8485)
[2] https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/YCvxfvXhXY/
[3]
https://salsa.debian.org/theloudspeaker-guest/gradle/-/blob/testing2/debian/patches/33_scala_zinc.diff
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/android-tools-team/admin/-/issues/16
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/theloudspeaker-guest/gradle
(https://salsa.debian.org/theloudspeaker-guest/gradle)
[6] (https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/YCvxfvXhXY/)
https://salsa.debian.org/theloudspeaker-guest/gradle-source-build/-/blob/master/gradle_6.4.1+bootstrap_all.deb
(https://salsa.debian.org/theloudspeaker-guest/gradle-source-build/-/blob/master/gradle_6.4.1+bootstrap_all.deb)
Raman Sarda
theloudspeaker.home.blog
