Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy 2.4.8

2016-12-31 Thread Jochen Theodorou
On 31.12.2016 03:25, Paul King wrote: The README gives bootstrap instructions for building from source. In particular, you should not copy gradlew from another groovy install. Instead you can just run any gradle and that will effectively do a "gradle wrapper" which will get the correct gradle ver

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy 2.4.8

2016-12-31 Thread Jochen Theodorou
Is it maybe because Groovy 2.4.8 is supposed to use Gradle 2.3 and that this build then does not work with Gradle 3.2.1, the version master is using? Just tested, and yes, this seems to be the cause. This means you cannot create the wrapper using Gradle 3.2.1 because the build file is not com

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy 2.4.8

2016-12-31 Thread Paul King
Yes, I guess Gradle 3 had breaking changes in their groovydoc tasks. I guess we should be mentioning that in the README somewhere. Any gradle version before 3 should work and there be some hack for 3 too no doubt - I'll see what I can do. There is a 'gradleVersion' property (set in the build.gradl

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy 2.4.8

2016-12-31 Thread Jochen Theodorou
On 31.12.2016 12:38, Paul King wrote: [...] There is a 'gradleVersion' property (set in the build.gradle file) which is used when bootstrapping the wrapper, so no need for further instructions in that regard. ah, ok. I am used to find those things in gradle.properties now... Is there any reaso

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy 2.4.8

2016-12-31 Thread Paul King
I imagine some of them could be moved but I think what we have is the more common place to have those versions. I am unsure whether an IDE assistance would be affected with such a move - I haven't actually tried. Cheers, Paul. On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote: > On 31.12.2