is there a way I should get the location of the

<repo>/.gradle

directory? is there anything that say I can't make a subdirectory in there?

Didn't Vampire previously pointed you to

gradle.startParameters.projectCacheDir

, also pointing out that Gradle says you shouldn't store arbitrary things in there? https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/StartParameter.html#getProjectCacheDir()

that's the cacheDir, I'm just asking about

.gradle

which is more than

.gradle/caches

There's no

.gradle/caches

in the project (you said

<repo>

above), the whole

.gradle

is the cache dir. See

--project-cache-dir

in https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:environment_options, also https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/directory_layout.html#dir:project_root

sorry, I was accidentally in ~ and didn't realize it when I did

ls

Whether there's only caches or more than caches, Gradle calls it "project-specific cache dir" and tells you not to use it 🤷

gotcha, I presumed it was a subdir, I'll use the gradle homedir or whatever then. Just need to design this structure right

I have no idea what your use case is, but I for one see no problem using something like

$rootDir/.my-own-cache

(as long as it's duly documented for users) if you feel

${rootProject.buildDir}/my-own-cache

won't work for you for whichever reason. And if that cache is project-independent, then store somewhere in the user home (possibly in the Gradle User Home dir)

it's dependent, but I can easily write the code so that it's not, it needs to last longer than a build

If it helps, there a library for getting OS specific directories https://github.com/harawata/appdirs I've been considering using it to get the correct OS cache dir for my application.

Yeah I was looking at the ladder but the 22 plus isn't going to work for me. I mean it could work for me... But I'd like this stuff to work for other people 😉