On 25 Sep 2014, at 6:01 am, Justin Ryan <quidr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really like how the tooling api can respect the > gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file, unlike the gradle or gradlew > scripts. I created a project that is essentially wrapping a main method > around the tooling api, it lets me run it from any projects and have it > respect the gradle-wrapper.properties file (which is the minimum someone > would need to check in). I consequently don't need the .jar file or the shell > scripts checked in. The project is here: > > https://github.com/quidryan/skipper > > To make it a little more useful, I do a trick with zip files that lets me > make the zip file executable in unix-y OS's. So, for me, I run this in any > Gradle project: > > skipper clean bulid > > I'm not saying everyone should use skipper, but it would be nice if the > default behavior of gradle shell script did this.
Absolutely it should. Would you be interesting in contributing ’skipper’ to Gradle core via a pull request? We could include it in the Gradle distribution as an alternative to ‘gradle’ and then we can merge the two over time, so that the default ‘gradle’ launcher just did the right thing. > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Szczepan Faber <szcze...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > For some scenarios (source releases of apache projects) it is useful > if Gradle offers provisioning without the need of the wrapper.jar > (e.g. keep the goodness of the wrapper but without any jar involved). > For example, check out the discussion in kafka project: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1490 > > Are there any plans/ideas for having wrapper capability without the jar? > > Cheers! > -- > Szczepan Faber > Core dev@gradle; Founder@mockito > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org CTO Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
