Thank you very much for working on Kotlin, that's definitely not a small
feat.
The key issue before uploading is to check if it's possible to build
Kotlin without the bootstrap package, i.e. the kotlin package can
rebuild itself. The process is to first build the kotlin package with
the bootstrap binaries, then install the package built, remove the
bootstrap package, adjust the build dependencies and rebuild kotlin.
This rebuilt package is the one you want to upload.
After that to check if kotlin can build from itself, I tried testing as per the workaround specified by ebourg in the last mail.
Created a clean lxc container and installed the kotlin .deb file. Checked if the kotlinc compiler was working or not? Yes, the basic functionalities work fine.
But, here is the case: I tried building the kotlin package again(to check is rebuilding is possible without bootstrap), by removing some of the dependencies from the bootstrap package, but it failed with the following errors.
```
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':buildSrc'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':buildSrc:classpath'.
> Could not resolve org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.30-eap-28.
Required by:
project :
> No cached version of org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.30-eap-28 available for offline mode.
> No cached version of org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.30-eap-28 available for offline mode.
> No cached version of org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.30-eap-28 available for offline mode.
> Could not resolve org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-sam-with-receiver:1.3.30-eap-28.
Required by:
project :
> No cached version of org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-sam-with-receiver:1.3.30-eap-28 available for offline mode.
> No cached version of org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-sam-with-receiver:1.3.30-eap-28 available for offline mode.
> No cached version of org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-sam-with-receiver:1.3.30-eap-28 available for offline mode.
```
It fails to find kotlin-Gradle-plugin in offline mode. And FWIW, we need to package kotlinx libraries and package them, but here is the thing the kotlinx has .kt files which need kotlin compiler itself to build them.
It looks like a cyclic dependency to me, because if we don't have kotlinx the compiler won't function. Please correct me, if I'm mistaken.
Is there any other workaround/suggestion if possible? For now, I'm trying to investigate if I can package kotlinx packages somehow.
Thanks and regards,
Samyak Jain