On 30/09/2011, at 5:41 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > Isn't there something wrong with a system that over and over again > downloads the same dependency from the Internet? The whole point of a > cache is that everything uses it to avoid accessing the Internet.
Rhetorical no? See http://markmail.org/message/6m7nxg7ykedm32hw for why the behaviour is the way it currently is and how we are working towards fixing this. > Gradle has had a history of downloading the same dependency multiple > times for each phase of a build. Now we have that Gradle is encoding > its own version as part of the signature of a dependency. This seems > fundamentally wrong to me, but perhaps I am uneducated and thick as to > why a dependency that has no relationship to Gradle has to be treated as > being dependent on it? I am not sure what signature you are referring to here, though Adam might. -- Luke Daley Principal Engineer, Gradleware http://gradleware.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
