From Gradle 6.0-rc-2 Onward, gradle-api-{$version}.jar Is Now A Working Automatic Module

[Plugins]

Heads-up! The fixes that make Gradle's generated API JAR a
correctly-functioning automatic module have been released with Gradle
6.0-rc-2! [1]

The so-called „shaded“ JAR file is not distributed like other Gradle
artifacts. Instead, it is generated lazily whenever you're developing a
Gradle plugin. It lives at
{$GRADLE_USER_HOME}/caches/6.0-rc-2/generated-gradle-jars/gradle-api-6.0-rc-2.jar.

Sincere thanks to Cédric Champeau (melix), Sterling Greene (big-guy),
Alan Bateman, Jochen Theodorou (blackdrag) and Alex Buckley!


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[1] http://bit.ly/GrdlisAmodule