Great idea, David. I don't know much about the gradle build, but I would love to give it a try. I feel it is worth the effort, since we should support 8.11.x releases until 10.x is out.
On Thu, 3 Aug, 2023, 10:48 am Shawn Heisey, <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 8/2/23 13:30, David Smiley wrote: > > I wonder if it's worth it porting the 8x codeline into our build > > infrastructure for 9x? i.e. use our existing Gradle build instead of > Ant. > > This way subsequent releases would be easier (if needed), would be easier > > for anyone maintaining a fork of 8x, and we needn't increment Lucene > > releases just for Solr's needs. > > How difficult would it be to actually reach a workable gradle build for > 8.x? I suspect it would not be anything close to trivial, and would > probably take a long time to fully troubleshoot. Whoever was the major > architect of the current gradle build should be able to tell us whether > that's a massive undertaking or not. I wasn't involved in any of that > work. > > The ant build isn't broken, and will not be needed for very many more > 8.x releases, so I think it's probably best let it continue as it is. > That effort is probably better spent getting 10.0 in shape for eventual > release. >
