Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!news.corradoroberto.it!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Toni Mueller Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: gradle reboot Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:00:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Fri Nov 29 11:56:45 2024 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.598 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS=0.4, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/23549 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Z0mr7Md0ofGjBNQI@laptop-t.office.oeko.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 23 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: Emmanuel Bourg , debian-java@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:56:28 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <78a8c1b6-c034-7e27-a0fa-9558adfcdfa9@free.fr> <1f8b8ba84612d8e1025cd32ef04c229936fdd117.camel@debian.org> <38d246ff-fac0-e6fd-d602-55f3a12e9751@apache.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:12842 Hi Julien, On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 12:40:36PM +0100, sre4ever@free.fr wrote: > By the way, any opinion about making that new gradle a "gradle8" package > that provides "gradle"? this would imho be good once things around gradle8 stabilize and people had time to migrate. I'd rather not have people suddenly inadvertantly upgrading to gradle8 without being ready for it. > My feeling is that maintaining up to 3 major versions of Gradle is > probably going to be necessary, given the breaking changes with every > major release (and sometimes in between) and what's already announced > for future releases. Making 'gradle' a virtual package might be an idea, but I don't think we're in a spot where we can think about that, yet. Cheers, Toni