One example is when one of the most popular plugins started requiring Java 17 because the underlying framework behind the plugin began requiring 17, and code from the framework was used in the plugin itself.
What would have happened if Gradle was limited to _only Java 11_ at the time?

## Decision

1. The Gradle distribution will never include a Java runtime.

/**
 * A test factory for byte or char sources or sinks. In addition to creating sources or sinks, the
 * factory specifies what content should be expected to be read from a source or contained in a sink
 * given the content data that was used to create the source or that was written to the sink.
 *
 * <p>A single {@code SourceSinkFactory} implementation generally corresponds to one specific way of

        val testTaskOptionsParameterName = "testTaskOptions"
        applyDefaultSettings(os, arch, buildJvm = BuildToolBuildJvm, timeout = 0)

        // Show all failed tests here, since that is what we are interested in
        failureConditions.supportTestRetry = false

        val extraParameters =
            functionalTestExtraParameters(
                listOf("RerunFlakyTest"),
                os,

	return input
}

// The other files in this directory each contain an implementation of TokenReader.

// A TokenReader is like a reader, but returns lex tokens of type Token. It also can tell you what
// the text of the most recently returned token is, and where it was found.
// The underlying scanner elides all spaces except newline, so the input looks like a stream of
// Tokens; original spacing is lost but we don't need it.

  //   spinning, so we use SPIN_THRESHOLD_NANOS which is what AbstractQueuedSynchronizer uses for
  //   similar purposes.
  // * We want to behave reasonably for timeouts of 0
  // * We are more responsive to completion than timeouts. This is because parkNanos depends on
  //   system scheduling and as such we could either miss our deadline, or unpark() could be delayed

== Testing in FIPS 140-2 mode

We have a CI matrix job that periodically runs all our tests with the JVM configured
to be FIPS 140-2 compliant with the use of the BouncyCastle FIPS approved Security Provider.
FIPS 140-2 imposes certain requirements that affect how our tests should be set up or what
can be tested. This section summarizes what one needs to take into consideration so that
tests won't fail when run in fips mode.

     * This is a required field describing what the job operated on.
     */
    @Required
    public String target;

    /**
     * The type of script that was executed for this job.
     * This is a required field indicating the script engine or type used.
     */
    @Required
    public String scriptType;

    /**
     * The script data or code that was executed.

    void setCacheMap(Map<String, DfsReferralDataInternal> map);

    /**
     * Replaces the entry with key in the cache map with this referral
     */
    void replaceCache();

    /**
     * Not exactly sure what that is all about, certainly legacy stuff
     *
     * @return resolveHashes
     */
    boolean isResolveHashes();

    /**
     * Check if this referral needs to be resolved further
     *

    for (c in 0 until MAX_SIGNERS) {
      val toVerify = result[result.size - 1] as X509Certificate

      // If this cert has been signed by a trusted cert, use that. Add the trusted certificate to
      // the end of the chain unless it's already present. (That would happen if the first
      // certificate in the chain is itself a self-signed and trusted CA certificate.)
      val trustedCert = trustRootIndex.findByIssuerAndSignature(toVerify)

    public Lifecycle get(String phase) {
        return getPhaseToLifecycleMap().get(phase);
    }

    /**
     * We use this to map all phases to the lifecycle that contains it. This is used so that a user can specify the
     * phase they want to execute, and we can easily determine what lifecycle we need to run.
     *
     * @return A map of lifecycles, indexed on id
     */
    public Map<String, Lifecycle> getPhaseToLifecycleMap() {