Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 06:03 +1000, Adam Murdoch wrote:
Russel Winder wrote:
Is this weird or to be expected -- Gradle cannot clean Gradle:
Gradle can't do anything with Gradle. You need to use gradlew.
Sorry, but this has to be a bit "arse about face". If I build and
install Gradle then I ought to be able to use it to build the Gradle
that I just used to create the built Gradle. The purpose of GradleW
should be as a bootstrap where Gradle is not pre-installed.
No, it's not just for bootstrap purposes. In this case it also is used to
guarantee the version of gradle you are building with. As breaking changes are
introduced in gradle, we must make sure that gradle's own build.gradle syntax
conforms to some particular (older) snapshot build. Otherwise you end up with a
chicken and egg problem. You can't introduce a new feature in gradle and use
that feature to build itself. You can build it with plain gradle, but you must
use an older version that matches the version of gradlew.
--
Steve Appling
Automated Logic Research Team
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