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Jean-Francois Im commented on KAFKA-1781: ----------------------------------------- It doesn't seem to work with 1.8. {quote} $ rm -rf gradle/wrapper/ $ gradle -version ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 1.8 ------------------------------------------------------------ Build time: 2013-09-24 07:32:33 UTC Build number: none Revision: 7970ec3503b4f5767ee1c1c69f8b4186c4763e3d [snip] $ gradle [snip] Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.10.1 FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Build file '/home/jfim/projects/kafka/build.gradle' line: 199 * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'kafka'. > Could not create task of type 'ScalaDoc'. * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. BUILD FAILED Total time: 15.229 secs $ ./gradlew Error: Could not find or load main class org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain {quote} This is what happens in 2.0. I also tested with 1.12, it does the same as 1.8. {quote} $ rm -rf gradle/wrapper/ $ gradle -version ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ Build time: 2014-07-01 07:45:34 UTC Build number: none Revision: b6ead6fa452dfdadec484059191eb641d817226c [snip] $ gradle Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.10.1 :downloadWrapper BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 7.239 secs $ ./gradlew Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.10.1 :downloadWrapper UP-TO-DATE BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 6.937 secs {quote} > Readme should specify that Gradle 2.0 is required for initial bootstrap > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1781 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1781 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: build > Affects Versions: 0.8.2 > Reporter: Jean-Francois Im > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.8.2 > > Attachments: gradle-2.0-readme.patch > > > Current README.md says "You need to have gradle installed." > As the bootstrap procedure doesn't work with gradle 1.12, this needs to say > that 2.0 or greater is needed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)