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
