HEADS-UP: switching to gradle 1.8 for next week's build

[Mario Torre]

2013/11/20 Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com>

>
> I guess I don't quite understand the "packaging and distribution" process.
>  If the packaging and distribution runs gradlew instead of gradle, what
> does it matter if the project was changed to use a different version?
>  There will effectively be no dependencies that aren't resolved by the
> gradlew script (which is checked in with the source code) at build time -
> including the dependency on gradle itself.  Are the machines that this
> would run on not able to access the internet?
>

In short, you can't ship a package that start downloading stuff you don't
know about and don't control, all the dependencies need to be explicitly
packaged and shipped together. Also, anything that ships in binary form
needs to be buildable from sources.

Cheers,
Mario

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