Re: Any plans to include kotlin in Fedora

[Bill Chatfield]

 It's probably a good idea to make it available. If I could find time I would do it,
even though I think we have a proliferation of unnecessary new languages. But, people want
them so it's best to make them available.

    On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 11:06:30 AM EST, Dridi Boukelmoune
<dridi.boukelmoune(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:  
 
 On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:33 PM Code Zombie <codezombie724(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  Kotlin is an open source project. Are there any plans to include its compiler in Fedora
> (if not already) repositories? Currently, it is installed manually on Linux to the best of
> my knowledge, but Mac systems already install it with HomeBrew. 
You could ask the same about Dart, or any other language with an
opensource toolchain missing from Fedora.

I think it boils down to having people to do the work, which is
probably not an easy task. I'm also assuming we'd need a more
up-to-date gradle package, which might not be a trivial task, and I
suspect that the build system is probably full of "Fedora violations"
between the need for an internet access, fetching pre-built
dependencies, bundling some dependencies...

That's usually what discourages me when I look at that kind of stack:
somewhat large and full of no-nos. So I have to assume Kotlin is
missing because nobody was bold enough to take it on (or nobody on
the Fedora project is interested in Kotlin).

Dridi
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