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Michael Brohl commented on OFBIZ-10145:
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I think we should provide a download script like it is mentioned in the first message of the linked thread. Our users, especially those who are new to OFBiz, often have basic problems to get started and simply removing the wrapper would add more hurdles before an easy start.
> Remove the Gradle wrapper from our release packages and add a step to our build notes
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> Key: OFBIZ-10145
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10145> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Gradle
> Affects Versions: Trunk
> Reporter: Jacques Le Roux
> Fix For: 17.12.01
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> Following the discussion at
http://markmail.org/message/nd7grfiyobjkfwae, considering LEGAL-288 and based on a lazy consensus on dev ML, we want to remove the gradle-wrapper.jar file from the next packaged releases and use [~jacopoc]'s related proposition to document how to have Gradle working in the main README.md file.
> # Extract the archive file to your local directory.
> # Download gradle-wrapper.jar and place it in the OFBiz-root-dir/gradle/wrapper folder.
> I'm not sure if we should recommend a link to download the gradle-wrapper.jar. This might change in the future (versions, etc.), so indeed maybe simply asking to download is enough, cf
https://www.google.com/search?q=gradle-wrapper.jar+download&ie=UTF-8> Also we need to add a point about removing gradle-wrapper.jar in
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Release+Management+Guide+for+OFBiz--
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