[fedora-java] Gradle upgrade issues (#976330)

[Marek Goldmann]

As a follow-up to this mail:

The only package that required Gradle was Hibernate. Recently (thanks to 
Gil) I migrated it from Gradle back to Maven. It works perfectly and is 
way easier to maintain now. You can see the spec file here:

	http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/hibernate.git/tree/hibernate.spec

I've opened a bug report to retire Grade in Rawhide and in Fedora 20:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029534

--Marek

On 21.10.2013 17:11, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> In bug #976330[1], there's been some discussion of the desire to
> upgrade Gradle from 1.0 to a new version (currently 1.8), and that
> there is significant hassle to actually do so.  Some of this hassle I
> see in the bugs blocking 976330 - upgrading to Aether, newer Plexus
> containers, and maybe Polyglot Maven.
>
> What are the key issues that make it difficult to upgrade and maintain
> Gradle in Fedora?  The likely ones I see:
>
> - Incompatible dependencies (Gradle may require package versions no
>    longer shipped in Fedora)
> - Bootstrapping problems (the Gradle 1.8 sources won't build with
>    Gradle 1.8, they seem to require 1.7)
> - Possibly library embedding (although the Gradle sources do seem to
>    pull in the dependencies from Maven)
>
> 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976330
>