1691101 - Remove jcenter/bintray from android-gradle-dependencies task

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(GeckoView :: General, task, P1)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

It's a sad day: as of May 1, 2021 jcenter/bintray will disappear. See https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/.

The android-gradle-dependencies task fetches dependencies from jcenter/bintray: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/40205f1b55f1ba8a26fcbd362c20d843e8718a87/mobile/android/gradle.configure#439.

I don't know what is actually coming from jcenter/bintray. That is the first step to quantify what needs to be done. The best way to determine that is to fetch the archive from the toolchain task and take a look at the downloaded repositories. Given a list of things we're fetching from jcenter, I know of no way to automatically determine where to start fetching those dependencies from; it might be a github searching exercise. (Hopefully all our dependencies publish somewhere other than jcenter!)

With that list in hand, the next step will be to (potentially) upgrade the Nexus version used in the a-g-d task (since what we are consuming is ancient) and to hack up the existing https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/scripts/misc/android-gradle-dependencies/nexus.xml to not reference jcenter and to reference some other, hopefully small, set of external repositories.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Stefan: this appears likely to impact android-components as well: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-mobile/source/android-components/taskcluster/scripts/toolchain/android-gradle-dependencies/nexus.xml. Can you redirect this to the right people to address for that project? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We have a meta in the A-C product tracking the various project changes that are needed across the set of apps we support. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/9603

Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #2)

We have a meta in the A-C product tracking the various project changes that are needed across the set of apps we support. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/9603

Beautiful -- thanks, Kevin. This reminds me that we may be able to depend on Maven Central instead of jcenter and more or less Go On With Life.

Comment 4

[[:owlish] 🦉 PST]

Attachment: Bug 1691101 - Migrate from jcenter in android builds

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9456d2f7812f
Migrate from jcenter in android builds r=geckoview-reviewers,nalexander,agi

Comment 6

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9456d2f7812f