Hi Mike, Just FYI - I confirm something is odd with the configuration evaluation. The times vary wildly on my machine. I don't know why it's the case and I couldn't pinpoint a clear cause. Once the daemon is running, things are faster - perhaps you should increase the default daemon timeout (it also applies to the IDE, I think):
# timeout after 15 mins of inactivity. org.gradle.daemon.idletimeout=900000 I'll try to improve things by refreshing some of the build scripts. I really liked gradle when it started - mostly for its simplicity. I don't like how it turned from a build system to a distributed cache of prebuilt artefacts... eh. Dawid