bug#70886: Packaging a gradle application

[Nicolas Graves]

Hi Noé,

Regarding Gradle, IIRC, the main hinderance to get that into Guix is the
extremely costly bootstrap process through which its building blocks (in
particular recent Kotlin versions) can be built. 

The work on this is mainly done by Julien Lepiller in channel
guix-android :
https://framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-android/-/blob/master/android/packages/kotlin.scm

He managed to get kotlin v1.0.0 to work but there was another
hurdle IIRC, I can't tell you more, but maybe Julien can.

There's still quite some work to do before we're able to write and use a
gradle-build-system. If you have a lot of computer power, don't hesitate
to take a look there.

There's also more info disseminated in the mailing list.

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Best regards,
Nicolas Graves