Just to clarify, as I do not find the docs here to be super clear: If the Gradle wrapper configures a Gradle version that's globally available in

PATH

on the build machine, it will not get bootstrapped, right? Or does the wrapper only look among versions that have been bootstrapped by the wrapper before to

~/.gradle/wrapper/

?

The

PATH

should be absolutely irrelevant. The

PATH

is just what is looked for when calling

gradle

(not

gradlew

which typically will not be in the

PATH

. The wrapper could anyway not use any pre-installed version, because you can get different Gradle distributions with the same version, for example if you use a custom distribution with just some added init scripts. So the wrapper should always only search for the auto-provisioned distributions it put into the

GRADLE_USER_HOME

, stored by checksum on the download URL.

So the wrapper should always only search for the auto-provisioned distributions it put into the

GRADLE_USER_HOME

, stored by checksum on the download URL.

Thanks, good to know for sure now.

If you think this is not clear enough in the docs, you should open a doc improvement request or PR. 🙂