Ian Clelland wrote: >But Gradle is a Java project, and so the script invokes Java, and makes >use >of a bundled .jar file, and therein lies the problem: We're not supposed >to >be including compiled JAR files in our repository. > >In this case, the .jar isn't actually part of our code; it's just used by >the build, and including it makes it closer to trivial for developers to >start building Cordova projects. It's easy to recreate, too, once you have >Gradle installed, it's as easy as running "gradle wrapper" to get it to >rebuild the wrapper, jar and all. The catch is that you already have to >have gradle installed for that to work. Egg, meet chicken.
Can we cheat and just have a script that uses curl/wget to retrieve Gradle from Apache's dist directory? Or, could we publish Gradle to npm and then have our thing depend on cordova-gradle ?
