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Hello everyone,

I got interested in the problem of bootstrapping a modern versions of 
Gradle, mainly due to the old version available in Debian. As far as I 
can tell, efforts have been mostly focused on using older versions to 
bootstrap an up-to-date version. I wanted to explore the feasibility and 
effort required to bootstrap with Maven instead. I now have a working 
purely Maven-based build that generates a distribution capable of 
building Gradle itself. The code is available here 
<https://github.com/MorMundHS-MA/gradle-maven-bootstrap>.

While it was fun, I am not sure how much this actually helps as it still 
requires a pre-build Kotlin compiler (at least 1.8 I think, even though 
 >2.0 is used). Additionally some of the other dependencies are also 
built with Gradle and would have to be bootstrapped as well. But I 
wanted to share my progress so far non the less.

Best,
Moritz

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Gradle bootstrap build with maven Moritz <mormund@mailbox.org> - 2025-03-16 11:20 +0100
  Re: Gradle bootstrap build with maven Julien Plissonneau Duquène <sre4ever@free.fr> - 2025-03-17 10:50 +0100
    Re: Gradle bootstrap build with maven Moritz <mormund@mailbox.org> - 2025-03-17 21:50 +0100
      Re: Gradle bootstrap build with maven Julien Plissonneau Duquène <sre4ever@free.fr> - 2025-03-18 10:30 +0100

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