Downgrade Gradle to avoid using API incompatible with older versions

Author: koperagen

core/build.gradle.kts

@@ -266,8 +266,10 @@ tasks.withType<Jar> {
 }
 
 // modify all publishing tasks to depend on `changeJarTask` so the sources are swapped out with generated sources
-tasks.named { it.startsWith("publish") }.configureEach {
-    dependsOn(processKDocsMain, changeJarTask)
+tasks.configureEach {
+    if (name.startsWith("publish")) {
+        dependsOn(processKDocsMain, changeJarTask)
+    }
 }
 
 // Exclude the generated/processed sources from the IDE

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

plugins/dataframe-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/org/jetbrains/dataframe/gradle/ConvenienceSchemaGeneratorPlugin.kt

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class ConvenienceSchemaGeneratorPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
                 val cfgsToAdd = configs.toMutableSet()
 
                 configs.forEach { cfg ->
-                    target.configurations.named { it == cfg }.configureEach {
+                    target.configurations.findByName(cfg)?.apply {
                         cfgsToAdd.remove(cfg)
                         dependencies.add(
                             target.dependencies.create(

plugins/dataframe-gradle-plugin/src/test/kotlin/org/jetbrains/dataframe/gradle/GradleRunnerDsl.kt

@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ fun runGradleBuild(
 fun gradleRunner(buildDir: File, task: String): GradleRunner =
     GradleRunner.create()
         .withProjectDir(buildDir)
+        // if we use api from the newest Gradle release, a user project will fail with NoSuchMethod
+        // testing compatibility with an older Gradle version ensures our plugin can run on as many versions as possible
+        .withGradleVersion("8.5")
         .withPluginClasspath()
         .withArguments(task, "--stacktrace", "--info")
         .withDebug(true)