I cannot seem to reproduce it. With milestone-3 and with latest snapshot build from head today the eclipse model builds ok for the gradle project (I was using the model sample).

Later I will try to write an automated test that builds model for gradle project itself.

Sorry. Turns out there was one other change I made to the sample. It's fetching a HierarchicalEclipseProject (ie the minimal model), rather than an EclipseProject (ie the full model). Fetching the full model is working, fetching the minimal model is failing.

I was able to reproduce the misbehavior of building of the minimal model (btw. since we always call the HierarchicalEclipseProject the 'minimal model', shouldn't it simply be called MinimalModel?). I fixed that, yet the misbehavior I faced was slightly different than your original description. The build failed for me with 'unresolved dependency' and the bugfix was about making sure we don't resolve jar dependencies when building the MinimalModel. Is this what you wanted to fix with this ticket?

The fix is available in one of the latest snapshots. For example you can update your gradle-wrapper.properties:

distributionUrl=http\://repo.gradle.org/gradle/distributions/gradle-snapshots/gradle-1.0-milestone-4-20110512131549+1000-bin.zip