Micronaut island is excluded from Groovy 6 builds, making Groovy 6 snapshots incomplete

[jamesfredley]

The Micronaut island is excluded from any build whose root Groovy version is not Groovy 5. On a Groovy 6 build - such as the Grails 9 / Groovy 6 canary (#15558) and any Groovy 6 snapshot produced from it - the following are silently dropped from the build and therefore absent from published artifacts:

• grails-micronaut-bom
• the Micronaut-dependent modules in the island
• the grails-test-examples that consume grails-micronaut-bom

Why

settings.gradle gates the island on both the build JDK and the Groovy major version:

def buildGroovyVersionLine = file('dependencies.gradle').readLines().find { it.contains("'groovy.version'") }
def buildGroovySupportsMicronaut = buildGroovyVersionLine?.contains("'5.") ?: false
def skipMicronautProjects = explicitlySkipMicronaut ||
        ((!buildJdkSupportsMicronaut || !buildGroovySupportsMicronaut) && !explicitlyIncludeMicronaut)

The island builds against the Micronaut 5 platform, which pins Groovy 5 and Spock 2.4-groovy-5.0, so it cannot participate in the same build graph as a different root Groovy major. It also targets JVM 25 bytecode, which is the separate pre-existing reason it is excluded on a sub-25 JDK.

The gate is deliberate and correct as a stopgap: without it, a Groovy 6 build fails outright on the island's Groovy 5 constraints. But it means a Groovy 6 build is quietly incomplete rather than failing loudly.

What needs to happen

Someone needs to work out how the Micronaut island can participate in a Groovy 6 build, or how Grails should ship without it on that line. Open questions:

1. Does the Micronaut 5 platform work on Groovy 6 at all, or does it need a Micronaut release built against Groovy 6?
2. If the island cannot move, should grails-micronaut-bom and the Micronaut modules be published from a separate Groovy 5 build so Groovy 6 snapshots are still complete?
3. Should a Groovy 6 build FAIL loudly when the island is skipped, instead of silently excluding it, so the incompleteness is not discovered downstream?
4. The island also pins Spock 2.4-groovy-5.0, which is incompatible with Groovy 6 independently of Micronaut - see Groovy 6 compatibility: changes required in Grails, and when each can be removed #16157 for the Spock situation.

Workaround

-PincludeMicronautProjects force-includes the island on any JDK and any Groovy version. It is expected to fail on a Groovy 6 build; it exists for deliberate experimentation.

Context

Raised while preparing #15558 (Grails 9 on Groovy 6.0.0-beta-2). Groovy 6 RC1 is expected shortly, so Grails 9 needs a position on this. Accepting the exclusion is a conscious decision for now, and this issue records what was deferred rather than leaving it implicit in a settings.gradle predicate.