Re: Packaging a gradle application

[David Elsing]

Hi,

Noé Lopez via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
<guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Today I thought I'd try to package Mindustry, a libre game I like made
> in Java. It uses the gradle build system, and I couldn't find any
> trace of gradle in the guix sources or mailing lists.
> [...]
> Is there something stopping us from using gradle to build packages or
> has it just not been done before ?

Gradle is very hard to bootstrap from source [1,2] and upstream does not
have plans to change that [3]. This is also why only a very old version
is packaged in Debian [4,5]. I don't know whether anyone is working on
it, that is just why I had read.

> Thanks in advance
> Noé Lopez

Cheers,
David

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00402.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2022/08/msg00010.html
[3] https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/26516
[4] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gradle
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/kotlin/-/issues/15