On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Joseph P <
jose...@gmail.com> wrote:
> should Kotlin build steps be added to parent
> pom?
Please, no. I in fact have a to-do item to *remove* the support for
Groovy compilation from the parent POM. Plugin maintainers who wish to
use alternative languages or build technologies are on their own.
In general, core maintainers have had poor experiences with plugins
using alternative JVM languages. It seems neat on the face of it, but
turns into a serious maintenance burden for the ecosystem as a whole.
In particular there have been multiple recent disasters with
(J)Ruby-based plugins and I hope to find time to propose deprecating
the entire runtime system and rewriting in Java the handful of popular
plugins using it.