<@U0BFDUP0E> Any plans to releasing mosaic with kotlin 1.7.0 support?

# compose-desktop

[andylamax]

@jw Any plans to releasing mosaic with kotlin 1.7.0 support?

[jw]

Need JetBrains to release a stable version of multiplatform Compose for 1.7 first.

[spierce7]

Do we have confidence that’s going to happen?

[spierce7]

I’m still on 1.6.10. I’ve been considering moving to preview builds.

[jw]

It'll happen eventually, who knows when

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

There needs to be a stable version of core Compose first, as started numerous times in this channel.

[jw]

What is core Compose? Google did a completely nonsensical switch of the Kotlin version for 1.2.0 stable so Mosaic only needs JetBrains to release the multiplatform build.

[jw]

Mosaic can just build its own runtime from the Google sources as it's done in the past, but I'd like to stop

[Paul Woitaschek]

Why do you think it is completely nonsensical?

[jw]

Because they went from Kotlin 1.6.21 support in 1.2.0-rc02 to Kotlin 1.7.0 in 1.2.0

[jw]

It's an affront to the bullshit they feed us about their release cycle

[jw]

If rc01 and rc02 were true release candidates then they wouldn't land such a change with no prior ability for people to test it

[Paul Woitaschek]

I don't have any insights into that. To me as a consumer that is just good and I'm getting unblocked by compose forcing me to use an older kotlin version

[jw]

Moreover, those who adopted the RCs to test are now forced to do what is effectively a Kotlin major bump to switch to stable

[jw]

Yeah that's easy: ship 1.2.0 with Kotlin 1.6.21 and 1.3.0 with Kotlin 1.7 at the same time

[jw]

But their bespoke infrastructure holds them back from doing such things or adopting Kotlin 1.7 sooner (it had plenty of time to beat the RCs)

[Paul Woitaschek]

So how can they now release more frequently while still being in the monorepo?

[jw]

Can they? They're slow as shit.

[jw]

The KSP team destroys them and demonstrates how to support Kotlin versions

[Paul Woitaschek]

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/06/independent-versioning-of-Jetpack-Compose-libraries.html?m=1

It reads to me like they are now faster with releases

[Paul Woitaschek]

Yep, extremely positively surprised how smooth KSP supports various version almost instantly

[jw]

Sure that means the versions are decoupled, but there isn't much point to decoupling the runtime and compiler. Wasn't Compose UI always decoupled?

[Paul Woitaschek]

It reads to me like they are now faster with releases

Turns out I was wrong 🤷

[andylamax]

That didn't age well 😅