On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 6:51 PM Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Gradle is not some minority, hardly-used tool, so there is presumably > > a reason why the package hasn't been updated in Debian. Anyone know > > what it is? > > > Becuase it's Very Hard Work(TM). > > Updating Gradle in Debian was proposed as a project under Freexian's > Project Funding initiative and it was accepted and work was done on it > for several months: > https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/issues/19 > > However, it seems like there are rather serious blocking issues that > have halted progress.
Impossible, fake news. It's Java. When I still coded C and assembly in the nineties everyone told me that Java would solve the issue of portability forever. Write once, run anywhere! Just run it, no worries!