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Iirc just an internal helper you can use for it but not an officially sanctionated API

I think what I have in mind is `zipTo` in the `kotlin-dsl`

dang, not so easy... more specifically I want to be able to create either a zip, or tarball

Make a `Zip` task and a `Tar` task and create both if the user chooses so. :slightly_smiling_face:

I can't... because I need the zip to be created in a build service

this is for tests, I want to check that my plugin works with different file formats. I have a flat dir, but I need to check it will also work with zips or tarballs as inputs.

now the easiest just seems to create the archives beforehand. But whatever I do, I need to create an archive

actually I went in 2 phases. I created tasks for each format, then I run my test in 2 phases. The first one simply creates the task, so that the 2d run, which uses tasks which consume the build service, have the zip at hand. It Just Works :tm: