The quickstart example is broken on Gradle 7 about akka-quickstart-java.g8

[ihostage]

This guide described in another repo https://github.com/akka/akka-quickstart-java.g8.
I think this issue needs to be moved there.

[johanandren]

Looks like the dependency "configurations" currently used has been removed in Gradle 7 (after being deprecated for a while) and we need to update the gradle build file to some other way of defining the dependencies (https://docs.gradle.org/7.0.2/userguide/building_java_projects.html#sec:java_dependency_management_overview).

This is only about the gradle build file in this template and not whether Akka can be used with gradle in general.

[martinandersson]

I'm sorry but I don't think I understand. Are you saying the configurations block has been removed in Gradle 7? I don't think so. I have it in my own project and it's working just fine. What would be the replacement for their configurations block I don't know lol.

Oh, and the Akka quickstart project doesn't even have the configurations block in the build file. If you could clarify what exactly you mean has been removed would be great! =)

[johanandren]

Sorry, not familiar with what the right gradle terminology was to describe the change, the project uses a dependency block like this: https://github.com/akka/akka-quickstart-java.g8/blob/2.6.x/src/main/g8/build.gradle#L12

Which apparently isn't allowed anymore with gradle 7 but I'm not entirely sure what the replacement dependency declaration should look like. If you are more knowledgeable a PR with the right kind of dependency block would be highly appreciated.