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why not use the built-in https://docs.gradle.org/current/samples/sample_building_java_libraries.html#generating_sources_jar?

It has to be a zip file with the modules build.gradle file and everything present in the module. Can I customize sourcesJar task to include these?

Do you really want to package for example

ModuleName/build

?

a jar file is a zip file

Just packing the build script additionally into it would most probably also not help much

if you need to export a buildable snapshot, https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive or whatever is appropriate for your version control system is almost certainly a better option

Not necessarily. I for example prefer things to also build properly without the VCS available, for example from such a snapshot. 😄

git archive

produces a zip or tar file containing all the files but none of

.git

But why using an external process that might not be available, when you can simply zip everything except

build/

up? Given a sanely designed build where only in

build

things get produced.

everything else in

.gitignore

? e.g.

.idea

,

*.pyc

, etc. which you can't just shove into

build

Yeah, well, I don't expect

.idea

on a machine or worktree doing a release build and I don't know what

.pyc

is. 😄

if you have any

.py

scripts that you run, Python saves the parsed bytecode into

.pyc

files alongside them

Ah, ok, I usually don't have anything in Python 🙂

To give context to the requirement and our setup… a tool is setup to automatically download the zip, unzip it and run a specific gradle command to run validation tests against an environment. I will look into customizing the sourcesJar task.

Ran into something similar this with upgrading to Gradle 8. Is there additional output in the logs that says something akin to Declare explicit dependency of taskA from taskB using Task#finalizedBy Or something similar?

Update: It turns out all I needed to do was exclude the build folder and the warnings went away.

Yes, that's why I asked whether you really intend to pack that along in my first message. 😉

and it would also be automatically excluded by

git archive

as it's not part of the sources