Your syntax is unconventional, and I'm not sure if and how it is supposed to work. Have you only had this problem since 1.10? Does the following solve it?

def someFiles = [ "some", "files" ]
jar {
into("subdir") {
from(project.projectDir)
someFiles.each

}
}

Oh. Ok. I thought I saw this in an example somewhere, but I might be mistaken. I would have expected that something like the following is a reasonable thing to do.

jar {
into("subdir") {
from("a") {
include "some-a-file"
}
from("b") {
include "some-b-file"
}
}
}

Edit: I only tested with v1.10. That's what I'm currently running.

To a certain degree, this expectation doesn't seem to be too far off since it actually works. However, the `each` + closure makes things go nuts, which is a bit surprising given the fact that the plain include works.

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