ForgeSRC file location for deprecated versions

Hello Forge developers and support members,

For the last week I have been searching the web for a solution to a build problem seemingly everyone seems to have.
https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/mzabrq/gradle_cant_find_forgesrc_when_compiling_in_111/
https://github.com/microsoft/malmo/issues/547
https://gitter.im/MinecraftForge/ForgeGradle?at=581ba4cd6cb72076303196b2
.... and many other sources I cannot find back.

I have seen a thread be abruptly ignored after giving an outdated version

We only need a jar file or jcenter/maven/gradle repository to pull from.

Please, there are many developers out there with a heart for 1.8.9 that would love to continue development, myself included.
It would be such a waste to more or less throw away years of hard work because of a file transfer and now-broken dependency link

Yours faithfully, Coco

Edited May 5, 20214 yr by CocoTheOwner
removed it for some reason