Re: Gradle version in bookworm
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 6:51 PM Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably
> > a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know
> > what it is?
> >
> Becuase it's Very Hard Work(TM).
>
> Updating Gradle in Debian was proposed as a project under Freexian's
> Project Funding initiative and it was accepted and work was done on it
> for several months:
> https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/issues/19
>
> However, it seems like there are rather serious blocking issues that
> have halted progress.
Impossible, fake news. It's Java. When I still coded C and assembly in
the nineties everyone told me that Java would solve the issue of
portability forever. Write once, run anywhere! Just run it, no
worries!
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