Update Gradle wrapper to Gradle 8.14 (milestone 5)

[msgilligan]

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[msgilligan]

I'm ready to merge this PR to master. I would like to begin experimenting with JDK 24 on some branches and feel it will be ok to use a pre-release Gradle on master. This PR does not change requirements for the build or for using the JARs, just upgrades the Gradle wrapper to 8.14-milestone-5. You can always build with an earlier version of Gradle.

The next release of secp-jdk will be v0.2 and Gradle 8.14 will almost certainly be final before then. So, given that the risk is low, that this project is still pre-alpha, and we can always back it out if we really need to, I think it is reasonable to use this (5th) milestone release of Gradle on master.

I also plan to submit PRs as soon as RC builds of Gradle 8.14 are available.

Sound OK @schildbach and @craigraw ?

[schildbach]

What I usually do in such cases is keep the commit as part of the experimental branches. Git makes this super easy to manage (rebase, cherry-pick, etc). Using a pre-release of Gradle bears the risk of regression, which can affect all devs, also those not running experiments with Java 24.

I leave the decision up to you. The PR itself looks good.

[msgilligan]

What I usually do in such cases is keep the commit as part of the experimental branches. Git makes this super easy to manage (rebase, cherry-pick, etc).

Good point, and I would normally do this.

Using a pre-release of Gradle bears the risk of regression, which can affect all devs, also those not running experiments with Java 24

Since this is only the wrapper, it will only affect builds of this project for those using the wrapper.

I leave the decision up to you. The PR itself looks good.

I feel the risks of regression is fairly low and I'd like to move towards JDK 24 ASAP -- for the build and examples (but not the libraries) and JDK 25 as soon as it is ready. We can stabilize on 25. I'm hoping (with little knowledge of the details) that the JEP 484: Class-File APIwill make it easier for Gradle to support new JDK releases.

I'm going to go merge it and keep my fingers crossed -- I think we'll be fine.