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


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