On 11/01/2012, at 9:22 AM, Adam Murdoch wrote: > > On 10/01/2012, at 8:46 PM, Luke Daley wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As part of the recent build work, I added some services to gradle.org that >> expose version information: >> >> http://gradle.org/versions/nightly >> http://gradle.org/versions/release-candidate (returns 404 because there is >> no active RC) >> http://gradle.org/versions/current >> >> I added some tasks to our build to use these to update our wrapper: >> >> https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/build.gradle#L451 >> >> We could potentially ship tasks that do this. >> > > I really like this idea. > > We might add a wrapper plugin, that packages up a bunch of > tasks/configuration/conventions for the wrapper. Combine this with a way to > implicitly apply plugins from the command-line, this will give us (the start > of) a nice command-line interface for managing a build. > > At some point, we also want to be able to get at this meta-data from the > tooling API, so that we can expose the set of available versions, their > statuses, etc. We might also expose the dynamic versions, too, via > GradleConnector.useGradleVersion(). > > The wrapper task, wrapper executable, and above tooling API stuff all need to > work from behind a firewall. As will whatever we do as far as downloading > core (and custom) plugins goes, too. So far, we use 3 different domains for > this stuff: > * downloads.gradle.org for the distributions. > * gradle.org for the meta-data. > * repo.gradle.org for jars (ie plugins). > > To be corporate-firewall-friendly, we really should be hitting a single > domain for everything that Gradle itself will download. A couple of options: > * Move the meta-data and the jars to downloads.gradle.org > * Move the meta-data and downloads to repo.gradle.org.
As in, move repo.gradle.org to point at our web host, and host everything that we build and make downloadable there. -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
