FS#64226 - [scala] Add support scala 2.12 branch

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Musikolo (Musikolo) - Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 03:16 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Thursday, 12 December 2019, 17:58 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Evgeniy Alexeev (arcan1s)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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Description: I've noticed we have scala 2.13.0 package available, but unexpectedly there is no longer support for scala 2.12 branch anywhere. Because scala is not backwards binary compatible (as everyone knows), and version 2.13 is still quite new, I think it would be beneficial to have a new package called scala-212 (or similar) with the latest version of the 2.12.x branch. This would be inline with what we have for other languages such as java or node. Most importantly, it will provide with some grace and valuable time for developers to transition to 2.13 carefully, specially due to currently unsupported dependencies.

Thoughts?
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 17:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Tuesday, 19 November 2019, 19:51 GMT
@Musikolo: If there is no direct need for 2.12 in the official repositories (because packages require it), the overhead of providing such a package is higher than the benefit (for the maintainers).

However, you're always able to provide a PKGBUILD for such a use-case yourself in the AUR.
Comment by Musikolo (Musikolo) - Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 05:17 GMT
@David Runge, I decided to create scala_2.12 in the AUR at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=2.12&outdated=&SB=v&SO=d&PP=50&do_Search=Go

I still think it would be nice to have it available officially, because developers will still find projects such as https://search.maven.org/search?q=a:log4j-api-scala* which don't have support for 2.13 yet.

Thank you.

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