Articles by Saif Abdul Cassim

  1. Beginning of the end

    Work done

    Hey all, since the last page of this post we have come so far into packaging Kotlin 1.3.30. I am glad to announce that Kotlin 1.3.30's dependencies are completely packaged and only refining work on intellij-community-java (which is the source package of the IntelliJ …

  2. Packaging Dependencies Part 2; and plan on how to

    Mapping and packaging dependencies part 1

    Hey all, I had my exams during weeks 8 and 9, so I couldn't update my blog nor get much accomplished; but last week was completely free so I managed to finish packaging all the dependencies from packaging dependencies part 1. Since some of …

  3. Packaging Dependencies Part 1; and plan on how to

    Finished downgrading the project to be buildable by gradle 4.4.1

    I have finished downgrading the project to be buildable using gradle 4.4.1. The project still needed a part of gradle 4.8 that I have successfully patched into sid gradle. here is the link to the …

  4. 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.

    task("dist") is the task that we call in order to build Kotlin 1.3.30 so it would be enough to translate and …

  5. 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 current progress in packaging Kotlin.

    Packaging Kotlin

    Kotlin 1.1.1

    During GSoC 2018 I tried …