Posted this to the forums, but it butchered the scripts I attached. Using gradlew is nice for a lot of reasons, but it somewhat forces you to run things from the command line at the top project level only or use ../../gradlew depending upon where in the subproject tree one is.
How about if there were scripts called gradlew and gradlew.bat that shipped with gradle in the bin directory (so they'd be picked up along the path if a gradle instance were added to someone's path) and they simply attempt to walk up the current directory structure looking for a gradlew/gradlew.bat file. Below are some scripts that do just that - whether they are well written is a separate issue ;-) Not sure if the windows script works in XP, but it definitely works in Vista and above. gradlew =========================================================== #!/bin/bash FOUND=0 CURR_PATH="$PWD" REAL_GRADLEW="$CURR_PATH/gradlew" if [ -x "$REAL_GRADLEW" ] then FOUND=1 else while [ "$CURR_PATH" != "/" ] do CURR_PATH=$(dirname "$CURR_PATH") REAL_GRADLEW="$CURR_PATH/gradlew" if [ -x "$REAL_GRADLEW" ] then FOUND=1 break fi done fi if [ $FOUND -eq 1 ] then $REAL_GRADLEW "$@" else echo "Unable to find gradlew file upwards in filesystem" fi exit 0 gradlew.bat =========================================================== @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set CURR_PATH=%cd% set REAL_GRADLEW=%CURR_PATH%\gradlew.bat if exist %REAL_GRADLEW% ( goto :found ) :while1 call :getdir "%CURR_PATH%" set REAL_GRADLEW=!CURR_PATH!\gradlew.bat if exist !REAL_GRADLEW! ( goto :found ) if "%CURR_PATH:~-1%" == ":" ( goto :notfound ) goto :while1 :notfound echo Unable to find gradlew.bat file upwards in filesystem goto :goodbye :found call !REAL_GRADLEW! %* :goodbye endlocal goto :EOF :getdir set "CURR_PATH=%~dp1" set "CURR_PATH=%CURR_PATH:~0,-1%" -Spencer
