Check build system compatibility with old Gradle versions
Currently, the CI of this project is using an alpine
-based docker image with a very new Gradle version (5.2.1
).
Unfortunately, many developers may still use old gradle versions; Ubuntu 18, for example, still ships Gradle 4.4
by default.
To have a quick check that our project properly builds with reasonably old Gradle versions, we could change our docker image to use a docker image with Gradle version 4.4. To ensure that new versions also work, we could keep a separate build job that uses a docker image with Gradle version 5.2.1 .