On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 07:52, Steve Sobol <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2023-08-26 03:18, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > continue using it -- but since I can get it onto my machine with zero > > effort via Intellij > > I am a Jetbrains subscriber who uses many of their IDEs, including > IntelliJ, and if that's the way you want to go, I'm certainly not going > to tell you not to. > > But if you don't need IntelliJ, it seems silly to install it just to get > Gradle. > > You can download the latest OSS version of Gradle from gradle.org. > > Am I missing something? > Oh, yes — the fact that I never suggested for a moment that the only reason I installed IntelliJ was to get Gradle. I’ve been an IntelliJ user since about 2006/7 or so. What I said was that I noticed that IntelliJ was installing a version of gradle to suit it, not using the platform-level Gradle, and was regularly updating it. The point of that, if you read the thread, was that there was a suggestion earlier in the thread that the reason gradle hadn’t been upgraded in bookworm and was still on version 4 while upstream was on version 8 was that it was terribly difficult to do, due to dependencies — but clearly not, given the ease of installing it manually. > Hope that clears that up. Mark > >
