[Android-tools-devel] Android Gradle Plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Markus Koschany:
> Am 08.02.2016 um 14:32 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>>
>>
>> Markus Koschany:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am currently in the process of packaging the Android Gradle Plugin
>>> plus related tools and the apktool package. Here is a short overview
>>> about the progress.
>>>
>>> I work with the following upstream repository:
>>>
>>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base
>>>
>>> In addition I also use upstream's Gradle build system. The build files
>>> are located under tools which is not a git repository. I had to clone
>>> the complete Android sources with their repo tool. If someone knows a
>>> better way to obtain build.gradle and settings.gradle for this project,
>>> please let me know.
>>
>> Great to see progress!  Which git repo do those files end up in after
>> you check out with repo?  
> 
> They are not in a git repo, that's the funny part. They are in tools,
> just one directory level higher up. But thanks to Kai-Chung I have found
> them in another repo now:
> 
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/buildSrc
> 
>> There might need to be some kind of
>> 'android-sdk-gradle-helper' package that just puts the build.gradle into
>> /usr/share/... for the other packages to find.
> 
> I think I will either follow seamlik's suggestion to package buildSrc or
> I merge the two files into src:android-platform-tools-base.
> 
>>> The following new build dependencies had to be packaged:
>>>
>>> * intellij-annotations
>>>   https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/intellij-annotations.git
>>>
>>> * android-tools-common
>>>   http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.android.tools/common/24.2.3
>>>
>>> * android-tools-annotations
>>>   http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.android.tools/annotations/24.2.3
>>
>> These probably should be built as part of another source package.  Do
>> you know which git repo those are built from? 
> 
> Unfortunately I'm not sure yet. It may well be that
> android-tools-annotations is built from tools/base.git, so it's a
> circular dependency. I don't mind creating two different source packages
> for android-tools-common and android-tools-annotations if this helps to
> avoid such a mess.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Markus

Yeah, welcome to packaging the Android SDK!  Lots of crazy stuff.
Kai-Chung has staged uploading all worked out for managing circular
dependencies in the C/C++ side of things.  That might make sense here too.

.hc