[gradle-user] Can't figure out the zip task exclusions and inclusions

[Jared Scott]

Hello Gradle Experts,

Our local Gradle guru is away on a much deserved vacation, leaving us less 
versed devs to do some Gradle build tasks. I'm struggling with excluding some 
jars from a zip task and including some different ones in place. We basically 
generate some obfuscated and un-obfuscated jars. The jars the zip task is 
including are the un-obfuscated jars. I'm wanting to exclude those and add the 
obfuscated ones in place. I've played around with this for a full day now and 
need some insight.

config = copySpec {
    from('assets/config') {
        exclude 'DevIDE.sh'
    }
    from('assets/config') {
        include 'DevIDE.sh'
        fileMode = 0755
    }
    //copying in expected empty directories and log4j config
    from('src/main/resources')
}

dependencies {
    compile project(':model')
    compile("org.apache.axis2:axis2:1.6.0")
    compile("org.apache.axis2:axis2-adb:1.6.0")
    compile("org.apache.axis2:axis2-transport-local:1.6.0")
    compile("org.apache.axis2:axis2-transport-http:1.6.0")
    compile "edu.stanford.ejalbert:browser-launcher:1.0-rc4"
    compile "javax.help:javahelp:2.0.02"
    compile 
files("lib/scriptide-lib/ap-dev-ide-help-1.0/ap-dev-ide-help-1.0.jar")
}

[obfuscate, obfuscateJar]*.enabled = false
distZip.dependsOn ':foundation:obfuscateJar', ':interpreter:obfuscateJar', 
':model:obfuscateJar'
distZip { Zip zip ->
    into(zip.archiveName - ".zip") {
        with config
    }
    ArrayList<String> projects = [':foundation', ':interpreter', ':model']
    List excludeFiles = projects.collect { String projectName ->
        "**/" + project(projectName).jar.archiveName
    }
    exclude(excludeFiles)
}

I have not added the include statement above because I can't even figure this 
out. I basically need to do the above to and then include the obfuscated files 
in place. I've read the docs and checked the gradle source for the zip task, 
but I am missing something. I've tried all kinds of variations: 
zip.exclude(...), putting the exclude into the 'into' closure, not using 
brackets around the excludeFiles, ....

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

Jared