Thanks for the background on that.  I suspected it was a new feature.

~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley


On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:02 PM Mike Drob <md...@mdrob.com> wrote:

> This feature was added to Gradle 6.2, which wasn't available when we first
> did the conversion from ant.
>
> This plugin doesn't do any verification of license and notice files like
> we do, so that's one thing that we will still need our custom validation
> for.
>
> We could potentially move the checksum verification to the plugin, but
> that seems like a lot of effort for I'm not sure what the payoff is.
>
> I don't trust the state of signatures in open source repositories to know
> if going down that path is worthwhile, but I also suspect not.
>
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 3:45 PM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> I noticed that Gradle has a built-in dependency version locking mechanism
>> that is different than the one we are using:
>> https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_verification.html
>> Dawid (or anyone), why are we using something different?  Is our
>> mechanism completely defined ad-hoc in Groovy in
>> gradle/validation/jar-checks.gradle or is there some related plugin for
>> this?
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>
>

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