Hi Julien,
On 07/03/2025 18:39, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:
Good evening,
The FrankenKotlin experiment is now over, and it failed.
This wasn't as bad as it looked like actually: it was caused by the
Kotlin compiler using the default JDK (21) as its target for API
compatibility, so while the bytecode was compatible with Java 8 it used
some API calls that were introduced in later JDKs instead of
reimplementing them as inline code. Using the JDK 11 again solved that
for the purpose of using that compiler for building Gradle.
Did you consider rebuilding the packages with Java 8 since we still have
openjdk-8 in sid? We may even clone the gradle package to make a Java 8
compatible version if that helps. Same thing with kotlin.
This outcome is a bit frustrating but it was the most likely one, and I
learned a few valuable things in the process.
The simple fact you didn't end in the local hospital after banging your
head on the wall for so long is quite an achievement!
My plan is now to update the Kotlin package to 2.0.21 (renaming it
kotlin2.0) and use it to build Gradle 8. I'm not sure that both package
(and dependencies) will be in a releasable shape in time for Trixie, but
if they miss the deadline they can still be made available later through
backports.
Yes it's too late for Trixie.
Emmanuel Bourg
