[Android-tools-devel] Fwd: Re: android gradle plugins setup

[Markus Koschany]

Now I'm also starting to send private messages *sigh*


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Subject: Re: [Android-tools-devel] android gradle plugins setup
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:03:23 +0200
From: Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org>
Organization: debian.org
To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>

On 21.07.2016 13:18, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 
> Markus Koschany:
>> On 20.07.2016 09:54, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> I think we can do it using the same mechanism as gradle's "standard
>>> plugins":
>>> https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/standard_plugins.html
>>>
>>> Those are the plugins that come with the gradle binary zips.  I imagine
>>> its just a standard path that we can customize with a patch or some
>>> other way.
>>
>> Those plugins are installed to Debian's standard paths in
>> /usr/share/java/ and /usr/share/maven-repo. (see libgradle-plugins-java)
>> I don't think there is anything special involved. Projects need to use
>> the apply command in build.gradle to activate them though.
>>
>> I suggest we install the Android Gradle Plugin also to
>> /usr/share/maven-repo and then we could try to build a project the usual
>> way by using the maven plugin and gradle-debian-helper can handle the rest.
> 
> Yeah, the Debian setup should not force the loading of the plugins for
> sure, e.g. the build.gradle must include:
> 
>   apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
> 
> What I'm thinking is that gradle will find the gradle android JAR
> without having to add a repository like mavenLocal().  Sounds like we
> just need to add the /usr/share/java and /usr/share/maven-repo paths for
> android-platform-tools-base.  But do you think they should still go into
> /usr/share/java?  I really can't see the Android gradle plugins ever
> being used for any Java project.

I agree that there is probably no need to install the jars in
android-platform-tools-base into /usr/share/java. If I understand
seamlik's Gradle patch [1] correctly, we could try to symlink them into
/usr/share/gradle/lib/plugins where Gradle should be able to find them.
In addition we also install them to /usr/share/maven-repo.

[1]
https://sources.debian.net/src/gradle/2.13-3/debian/patches/search_system_jar.diff/





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