We can't ship gradle-wrapper.jar in the artifacts, so the gradlew command wouldn't work even if it was included. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-288 and the original discussion here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d8bd7a0395d979246b3aff02fbb562ac0467828c4adfc25029839fab@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E
It doesn't look like the legal issue has seen any progress since April. Andrew On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:36 AM Jozef Vilcek <jozo.vil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > this commit added export-ignore for some of the gradle stuff > > https://github.com/apache/beam/commit/2a0f68b0c743d37c46486b81500043b4b420c825 > > This means that downloaded zip archive of git repository is not build-able > via 'gradlew` command. I am curious about the rationale behind this feature. > > Best, > Jozef >