Seeking Assurance That Patching gradle-api-6.{...}.jar Is At Least Technically Possible - Somehow

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/11/2019 10:07, Dawid Weiss wrote:
> :
> Just FYI: the latest Apache Xerces release (that's June, 2018) still
> depends on this jar...
>
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xerces/xercesImpl/2.12.0/xercesImpl-2.12.0.pom
>
A release in 2018 suggests it may still be maintained.  Do you, or 
anyone else, have cycles to reach out to this project to help them? It's 
not clear to me why they would want developers to downgrade the XML API 
to where it was in Java SE 6.

-Alan