Maybe using a powershell downloader or requiring cygwin... I don't like any of them because it increases the dependencies on external elements.
I would say that including the jar for the builder is a preferred solution and probably would be a good idea to keep a copy of the gradle code that generates that specific jar. It's important for a code with this complexity to minimize the barriers for their contributors and it is evident the value of this jar to get a reproducible building process in a straight manner. What do you think? For powershell I found this code that seems to be simple http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2010/10/how-to-download-files-with-powershell/ his snippet is: (Code starts) $Url = "http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/ps.txt"; $Path = "C:\temp\ps.txt" $Username = "" $Password = "" $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.Networkcredential($Username, $Password) $WebClient.DownloadFile( $url, $path ) (Code ends) For calling the powershell from a batch file it is possible to use: http://blog.danskingdom.com/allow-others-to-run-your-powershell-scripts-from-a-batch-file-they-will-love-you-for-it/ and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6359618/pass-parameter-from-batch-file-to-the-powershell-script to call something like powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& '%PowerShellScriptPath%' 'First Param Value' 'Second Param Value'; exit $LASTEXITCODE"; the exit code will be available on %errorlevel% in the batch file. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:52 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > I had some fun recently. > I want to try a set of scripts and builds with different versions of Gradle > and Groovy. > I used GVM in my script and was happy with the result testing all variety > of Groovy and Gradle versions. > > Then I tried to create do the same on Windows. There is a port of GVM for > Powershell but it was a real challenge . You couldn't just enter a script > and be up and running. You had to change permissions to allow it to work > and start a new shell and then try to get Powershell scripts working that > uses gvm as expected... > > I eventually just used cygwin. > > Maybe the simplest is to suggest the Gradle project provides a simple > download called gradle-wrapper.zip with instructions so that users can > fetch and unzip the wrapper and be up and running in no time. > > > > On 16 April 2015 at 17:38, Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 16.04.2015 17:16, schrieb Roman Shaposhnik: > > [...] > > > >> Like I said -- we did it in Bigtop (UNIX only): > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=bigtop.git;a=blob; > >> f=gradlew;h=2ad3dae8a6e583ff647b9c05bc02bd7979b88f29;hb=HEAD > >> > >> You are welcome to borrow/hack it > >> > > > > So it is valid to require Linux for the source distribution build? And > > that even if your project does not depend on Linux? The real trouble is > as > > always windows. > > > > > > bye blackdrag > > > > -- > > Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou > > blog: http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/ > > > > >
