GNU bug report logs - #31333
[PATCH] Add groovy

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Cc: 31333 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#31333] [PATCH 22/22] gnu: Add groovy.
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 21:23:00 +0200

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> +                 ;; Groovy uses class loading. It's not enough to put the class
> +                 ;; in the loader's classpath, as it causes breakages:
> +                 ;; the compiler would give this error:
> +                 ;; "Prohibited package name: java.lang"

It might make sense to ask upstream about that.

> +                 ;; antlr.jar is present twice in antlr2.  Symlink doesn't like
> +                 ;; it, so we symlink it here.

Why is it present twice?  Is it useful?

So this package uses an union in order to avoid classloader problems.  Fine, but I wonder whether the problem is now merely hidden.

Anyway, LGTM for now (for this version) !

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