Good evening,
Some slow progresses were made since Monday towards getting a Gradle
build that doesn't depend on pre-built binaries from the upstream Gradle
and Kotlin projects.
Le 2025-01-27 19:25, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
trying to figure out how to configure the whole thing so the bootstrap
gradle (from upstream, thus unpatched) still finds the Kotlin 2.0.20
that makes it happy, but builds a gradle that uses our Frankenkotlin.
I somehow found my way around this, swapping a dependency on a pre-built
Gradle plugin from the previous version to one on the same version as
the one being built, and downgrading the Kotlin version to that of our
Frankenkotlin. I'm now deep into backporting a plugin and some APIs into
that Kotlin, reverse-engineering some of the tedious work that was done
by Samyak Jain and Emmanuel Bourg to convert the Kotlin build scripts to
Groovy and downgrade them to work with a Gradle that was already quite
obsolete, and trying to apply the same recipes to build scripts designed
for significantly later versions of both Kotlin and Gradle.
I guess that no one will be surprised if I state again that it's a slow
and tedious process, though I think I'm progressing, and I still have
some hopes to be able to get the thing to work with the Frankenkotlin.
Considering the alternative would be to rebootstrap a Kotlin 2+ at the
same time, which would be a significant project, I think it's worth
investing some time into this.
Right now I'm in a train on my way to Brussels, hoping to meet some of
you this week-end at the FOSDEM.
Cheers,
--
Julien Plissonneau Duquène
