Android Tools is a project in Debian Summer of Code again
Debian has participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for many years now, and after a one year hiatus, Debian is applying again this year. The Android Too...
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sdkmanager and future plans for supporting Google binary packages
The F-Droid reimplementation of sdkmanager is now in Debian! This means that users now have an easy, documented way to get Google’s Android SDK packages. I...
Gradle without proprietary enterprise plugin
We have Gradle v4.4 in Debian, the current packaging effort is focussed on v6.4, and upstream is now up to v7.2. The build depends on com.gradle.enterprise, ...
Kotlin Update
A Quick Recap from last year:
Beginning of the end
Work done
Packaging Dependencies Part 2; and plan on how to
Mapping and packaging dependencies part 1
Packaging Dependencies Part 1; and plan on how to
###Finished downgrading the project to be buildable by gradle 4.4.1
Finished converting all the buildfiles to groovy and downgraded to Gradle 4.4.1; week 3+ update
Converting build files to groovy During the third week I mainly spent my time converting all the build files in the “dist” task graph to groovy from kotlin-d...
Converting build files to Groovy; week 2 update
I spent the first two weeks on updating build files of Kotlin to groovy so that we can reduce the dependency on kotlin-dsl while packaging Kotlin.
Welcome to the Debian Kotlin GSoC blog
I’ll be using this blog to track progress on packaging Kotlin and report on what I am doing during the GSoC period. So let me go on a head and start with the...
Help the Java Team distribute your project!
There is a vast array of great free software projects written in Java. All sorts of large systems that we all rely on every day are built upon the Apache Fou...