Gradle version is outdated

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Gradle version is outdated

cyrille-artho opened this issue a year ago · comments

JPF currently builds with Gradel 5.4.1 (on branch java-10-gradle), which is a very old version of Gradle.
Converting to a new version will require some adaptations in the build script, but will enable us to support newer versions of the Java compiler and run-time environment in the future.

Gaurang Kudale · Answer 1 · Fri Jul 07 2023 21:32:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @cyrille-artho
The latest version of gradle is v8.2 so jpf-core should support the same or different?

cyrille-artho · Answer 2 · Sun Jul 09 2023 20:13:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You cannot simply upgrade to a new version. Several features have changed from version to version, so some features that our build relies on no longer work in Gradle 6, 7, or 8. So you have to upgrade step by step and resolve all the resulting issues when you switch to a new version, replacing a deprecated feature with a new equivalent one. This is usually not very difficult but can be a bit tedious; you have to find the right documentation on how to migrate a certain feature (and such documentation might not be 100 % correct for our case so you may have to troubleshoot some more).

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Varadraj Galgali · Answer 3 · Sun Jul 09 2023 23:56:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hello @gaurangkudale, I have started working on this task as part of GSoC-23. If you have not started work on it, would you mind if I take it up?

Thanks in advance!

Varadraj Galgali · Answer 4 · Mon Jul 10 2023 04:16:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hello @cyrille-artho,
Updated to Gradle 6.0
Now, incrementally moving up by resolving deprecations, as you suggested.

Thanks!

cyrille-artho · Answer 5 · Mon Jul 10 2023 04:26:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Great, please make a PR for major Gradle version upgrades (isolating this change from other changes you are working on, such as fixing the compilation error for your large PR).