The problem is not downloading a dependency, that's easy to do. The problem is downloading the *build tool* itself. Gradle has a major advantage over Maven here: the Gradle bootstraps everything. But to bootstrap itself, it requires the wrapper.
2015-04-16 7:38 GMT+02:00 Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Andrew Bayer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Kafka downloads the wrapper jar at build time... > > FWIW that (old) pom from a Sling module downloads such a dependency > and caches it locally so that it survives "mvn clean", could be > useful: > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/contrib/extensions/dojo/pom.xml > (search for "Dynamically download the Dojo Toolkit) > > -Bertrand >
