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

[Dawid Weiss]

They seem to be aware about it -- see this issue, for example:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1689

Dawid

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:33 PM Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> 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