I think it is reasonable to drop support for older Grails versions on a regular basis if keeping support hinders maintenance or makes the plugin work badly.
/Mattias Den sön 23 aug. 2026 kl 18:31 skrev James Daugherty <[email protected]>: > > Hi Everyone, > > I've been working on the intellij plugin so we can have our first ASF > release. As part of that, several issues were identified. The main > blocker is that older versions of Grails included GPL / LGPL code and > the intellij plugin copied those jar files to support those versions. > For now, I've gone ahead and referenced them via Maven, but I think we > should discuss what Grails Versions the IntelliJ plugin should > actually support. > > Are people wanting to maintain legacy Grails support? Should we > instead publish a "Legacy Plugin"? The differences between a Grails > 1/2 and a Grails 3.3+ app are completely opposite - Grails 3 is what > introduced the Gradle build system instead of the home grown solution. > > I also suspect it's only a matter of time, if not already, that > IntelliJ itself won't support the java versions or gradle versions > that older Grails versions need. Dropping support for anything older > than Grails 3.3 would greatly simplify the code base. Splitting the > plugin into a Grails 1/2 version vs later versions would be another > alternative. > > What do people prefer and what are people willing to support? > > -James
