Good evening,
As goes the saying, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step.
Le 2025-03-21 18:58, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
Expect to see a few new branches including `kotlin2-wip` on my fork of
the package repository fairly soon.
I was hoping to be done sooner with this but then some COVID replica hit
me which did no good to my productivity. So far the branch is pushed but
there aren't any WIP docs yet as I'm not done yet writing a first draft.
However the Kotlin sources were carefully sieved to reintroduce
/testData/ contents while removing more unwanted objects including
(almost) all pre-built binaries and copies of curl, sqlite, jquery and
yarn. There is still copied code from several other projects but at
least some of it was modified by Kotlin contributors, so I will
eventually get back to these later to find out if they are to be
considered forked or could be factored out of the project.
A not too pleasant surprise was to discover that the upstream project
decided to use LFS to store a few JPEG images used in the documentation
(which is way overkill). Fortunately this is supported by Salsa and
uscan, but it slows down significantly some remote operations. These
images only appeared in 2.1.0 so the 2.0.21 branch should not be
impacted.
I also fixed JDK17+ compatibility issues and the remaining CVE on Kotlin
1.3.31 on a MR which is now pending review (reviewer(s) welcome!) and
eventually upload.
Next week I'm now going to start combing through the dependencies of
Kotlin 2.0.21.
Cheers,
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Julien Plissonneau Duquène
