The problem with Gradle as far as I'm aware is that it's a moving
target. It insist on updating itself when you have an incompatible
version and versions tend to break compatibility a lot, with new
features added often, all of which makes impossible for a Linux
distribution to keep up realiably.

Cheers,
Mario

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 12:23 PM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.an...@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 "out of date, broken, fails to build, basically unmaintainable".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_source.html
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797361
> [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gradle/blob/master/f/dead.package
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | 
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