Good evening,
Building a functioning gradle using a pre-built Kotlin 2.0.21 is a bit
more work than I expected.
Le 2025-03-07 18:39, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
update the Kotlin package to 2.0.21 (renaming it kotlin2.0)
I've started to look around that release and test the upstream build
which worked out of the box. Thinking about it the package name will
rather be 'kotlin2' as new '2.x' releases are expected twice a year and
there is no way we (I?) are going to simultaneously maintain several of
these short-lived branches. Instead I'm planning to keep packaged in
unstable the latest version that is known or tested to be compatible
with Gradle (currently still 2.0.21 in Gradle's master branch), and
eventually later (we'll see when we get there) the latest Kotlin version
in experimental as kotlin2.x co-installable with kotlin2.
Then I got back to Gradle, removed the patches that downgraded its code
to build with the FrankenKotlin, restored the build of the declarative
DSL module, adjusted dependencies versions, and a few more little things
to get it to build again, and in the process discovered that we now need
to package a kotlinx.serialization library, and to find a way to ship an
old release of kotlinx-metadata-jvm alongside the current API that was
refactored and renamed with Kotlin 2.
The builds eventually succeeded, but then I was unable to use the
generated binaries to rebuild gradle, as they failed with some
suspicious compilation errors. Debugging these, it turned out that some
classes normally compiled from generated Kotlin sources were missing, as
well as their generated sources, so I now have to investigate that.
in time for Trixie
Well definitely not now, as new packages won't be allowed anymore
starting with the soft freeze week 16, and with the typical NEW review
and migration delays that means they should have been ready since
probably some date in the past. Let's not miss this great opportunity to
quote Douglas Adams: “I love deadlines. I love the whoosing noise they
make as they go by.”
Cheers,
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Julien Plissonneau Duquène
