Tom,

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:36 +0100, Tom Eyckmans wrote:
> Hi Russel,
> 
> I've looked at this and I've found the following:
> 
> you have a groovyVersion property in the Gant build this in
> combination with the GROOVY_HOME environment variable cause problems
> when they are not aligned to the same Groovy version, so when in the
> Gant build the groovy16version is used the GROOVY_HOME should point to
> a Groovy 1.6 directory, and when groovy15version is used in the build
> GROOVY_HOME should point to a Groovy 1.5 directory.
> 
> When I align them the build seems stable (ran it a couple of times for
> Groovy 15 and 16 ).

Thanks for taking a look at this.  I made time to take a look at this
further myself this afternoon.  I am rapidly confirming a hypothesis!

The problem I am seeing is that Gradle appears to be finding an
alternative instance of Groovy to the one in GROOVY_HOME.  In particular
I have Gant 1.6.1 installed from an Ubuntu package and that includes
Groovy 1.6.0 in its lib directory, as well as having Groovy
1.7-beta-1-SNAPSHOT (i.e. Trunk) and Gant 1.7.0-SNAPSHOT installed in my
personal area.

When a Gant job is spawned by Ant, Gant, Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, it
picks up the PATH and GROOVY_HOME environment variables and hence finds
my personal Gant and Groovy.  When Gradle spawns a Gant job it seems to
be finding the Gant in /usr/share/gant.  Here lies the seeds of two
versions being used in two different phases of the test build which
leads to the errors I am seeing.

So my current hypothesis is that Gradle is spawning jobs without
inheriting the environment variables from the original shell whereas
Ant, Gant, Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA are all picking them up.

However, I may be barking up the wrong tree.

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