Nick and team, this is great news! I'm delighted that we're now aligned with the Android development status quo, simplifying our cross-project development and getting a lot of features for free (Kotlin, anyone? <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322543> ;). Thanks for all your hard work! - Mike
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > tl;dr: Fennec 58 should build with Gradle. > > I just landed Bug 1405396 [1], which makes the default Fennec build (and > build jobs like (B)) use Gradle. Queue mass celebration! > > The existing build job Bg (Build, Gradle) is now labeled Bng (Build, > non-Gradle). It has been promoted to tier 1 and the test set will be > expanded [2], so that we don't lose coverage and prevent a rollback. This > Bng job will be removed as soon as we're confident that the Gradle builds > are good in the wild, so I have _not_ renamed android-api-16-gradle to > android-api-16-non-gradle. Sorry for any confusion this causes. > > Local developers will by default build --with-gradle. For developers who > are not using --with-gradle already, the next time you build, you will > likely see the Gradle wrapper downloading Gradle and a huge number of > dependencies being pulled from the network. This should be a one-time cost > (with incremental future cost as we update the Gradle dependencies). In > the future, we may include the Gradle toolchain and initial dependencies as > part of |mach bootstrap|, but it should not be necessary. > > To build --without-gradle, add --without-gradle to your mozconfig. > > Single-locale repacks, critical to developing new localizations, will be > temporarily broken. Hopefully this disruption will be (very!) short: > patches are up for review [3]. > > This landing has thrown Autophone for a loop, but it seems to be a problem > with configuration and not the actual code being tested [4]. > > There is a huge amount of follow-up work to tear out the existing system > and really enjoy the benefits of building with Gradle, but hopefully this > gets us over the hump. > > Many thanks to Max Liu, my partner in crime on this project; to Nicole > Yee, for keeping things on the rails; to Sorina Florean and Bogdan Surd, > for testing; and to many others for timely reviews and support at critical > moments. > > Please file fall-out blocking [1]. > > Yours, > Nick Alexander > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405396 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414048 > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411688 > [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414021 > > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > >
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