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As discussed in the introduction, the gradle wrapper functionality works because a jar is downloaded into the project to be used when the gradlew command is run. However this may not get committed and after the next time the project is checked out, gradlew will fail to run with the error: Error: C...

Gradle has the ability to add a wrapper to projects. This wrapper alleviates the need for all users or continuous integration systems to have Gradle installed. It also prevents version issues where there is some incompatibility between the version the project uses and that which users have installed...

If you want to keep on-premises copy of the Gradle and let the Wrapper use it in the builds, you can set the distributionUrl pointing to your copy on the wrapper task: task wrapper(type: Wrapper) { gradleVersion = '2.0' distributionUrl = "http\://server/dadada/gradle-${gradleVersion}...

The first time a user runs a project's gradlew, it should be realized that it will do two key things: Check to see if the version of the gradle used by the wrapper is already in ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists If not, download the archive of the version from the internet If you're in an environment t...