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Paul King closed GROOVY-8934.
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Assignee: Paul King
Resolution: Not A Problem
[~roptat] closing. Let us know if there is anything we need to do on the Groovy
side for your missing dependencies for the latest Groovy.
> Groovy 2.5 introduced a bootstrap loop
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> Key: GROOVY-8934
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8934
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: julien lepiller
> Assignee: Paul King
> Priority: Major
>
> Hi,
> I'm a packager in Guix and I'm interested in getting the java stack packaged
> in Guix. We already have a package for Groovy 2.4.15
> ([https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/groovy.scm])
> that I'm trying to update to the latest version. This old version was
> perfectly bootstrappable, meaning that I was able to build Groovy without a
> pre-existing Groovy compiler. I only had to ignore Gradle (because it depends
> on Groovy) and somewhat emulate its behavior with simpler tools. This works
> well and I'm able to build most of Gradle with it!
> During the update process, I realised that Groovy now requires picocli. When
> I tried to package it, I discovered that it depends on Groovy. This
> introduces a bootstrap loop that I need to break, as I can no longer build
> Groovy without itself. Would you consider removing picocli to make Groovy
> bootstrappable (in the sense of
> [https://bootstrappable.org|https://bootstrappable.org)/]) again in future
> releases?
> Another solution for us is to update to the latest version in the 2.4 series,
> build picocli with it, and then use that to build the latest Groovy. This is
> less nice, because future versions of picocli might require intermediate
> versions of Groovy, which will eventually create a long chain of compilers,
> but could work as well.
> Thanks in advance!
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