Hans - I was wondering if this could be added to one of the next 0.9 builds as I'm in desperate need of a solution for this issue.

I also think that it should rather be implemented at the AbstractArchiveTask level and not for jars only.

In my situation, which is kind of an legacy Java application, we produce a resulting zip artifact which has a code/classes directory containing the Java packages that are required by a dependent project. The zip artifact also contains a code/jars directory containing jar archives that should be added to the archive configuration as well. So it is very similar to the more standardized war bundling.

What about if we don't have a project dependency to this type of artifact but a dependency to the artifact itself after uploading it into the repository?

It probably doesn't make a difference, but we have written our own plugins and tasks and would need to access this functionality from within there only, not from the build.gradle.

Have you made any progress in addressing your problem? I think there are a couple of ways you could solve your specific problem with the current capabilities of Gradle.

Nope. That's a critical issue for us to use Gradle for our projects. I was hoping to find the time soon to further look into it in order to propose a solution. I'm not aware of any current Gradle features that could possibly address the issue. Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks.

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