On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 6:23 AM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> netcdf-java[1] uses the Gradle build system, and is required to update
> hdfview[2] to the latest version. Gradle, however, was retired[3] as
> "out of date, broken, fails to build, basically unmaintainable".
>
> Now, I know that following our system, one must package Gradle first but
> given the retirement comment, packaging and then maintaining it does not
> appear a simple task, and for one dependency only, it seems overkill.
>
> Is there perhaps a way of bypassing that somehow? For example, is there
> a way to use good old Maven to build a Gradle based project?
>
> [1]
https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-java/5.2/userguide/building_from_sou...
> [2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797361
> [3]
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gradle/blob/master/f/dead.package
>
Gradle is a blocker for a lot of projects, unfortunately. Not
supporting what appears to be one of the preferred build tools in the
Java ecosystem has made things quite painful...