All Kawa-related downloads now use our existing VerifiedDownload task
class. This gives us Gradle-integrated progress reporting,
incremental build support, build caching, correct dependencies, etc.
Using Kawa to compile Scheme into bytecode now also has proper
dependency management, incremental build support, and build caching.
Same goes for bundling these compiled bytecode files into jar archives
for later use in regression tests.
Also, when downloading kawa-chess, grab a specific commit hash rather
than whatever is the most recent master commit. If this project
changes in the future, we don't want our tests to break unexpectedly.
Perhaps we'd want to pick up any new kawa-chess commits; perhaps not.
Either way, that should be a conscious decision rather than something
that can happen behind our backs.
Under some circumstances, Gradle seems to decide that the destination
file being absent is the download task's expected outcome. It caches
this state, and refuses to retry the download in the future since it
thinks the task is up-to-date. We can correct this by telling Gradle
that the task should not be considered up-to-date if the file is
missing, as recommended by
<https://discuss.gradle.org/t/task-up-to-date-but-outputfile-not-created/17568/2>.
We now download and verify checksums as a single task, rather than as
two separate tasks. This simplifies other task dependencies, since we
no longer have a checksum-verified "stamp" file separate from the
download itself. Unfortunately the combined task now has a
significant amount of repeated boilerplate. I'm hoping to refactor
that all out into a custom task class, but haven't yet figured out the
details:
<https://github.com/michel-kraemer/gradle-download-task/issues/108>.
We now also use ETags to be smarter about when a fresh download is or
is not actually needed. I think there are still opportunities for
improved caching here, but this is a step in the right direction.
This fixes the last of our Javadoc warnings without creating a
circular dependency between ":com.ibm.wala.cast:javadoc" and
":com.ibm.wala.cast.js:javadoc". Fixes#4, wherein more details about
this tricky dependency challenge can be found.
We now download and verify checksums as a single task, rather than as
two separate tasks. This simplifies other task dependencies, since we
no longer have a checksum-verified "stamp" file separate from the
download itself. Unfortunately the combined task now has a
significant amount of repeated boilerplate. I'm hoping to refactor
that all out into a custom task class, but haven't yet figured out the
details:
<https://github.com/michel-kraemer/gradle-download-task/issues/108>.
We now also use ETags to be smarter about when a fresh download is or
is not actually needed. I think there are still opportunities for
improved caching here, but this is a step in the right direction.
This fixes the last of our Javadoc warnings without creating a
circular dependency between ":com.ibm.wala.cast:javadoc" and
":com.ibm.wala.cast.js:javadoc". Fixes#4, wherein more details about
this tricky dependency challenge can be found.
Ben Liblit