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Can you rephrase that, or show by example what you mean?

So, when I run the build task, my project creates a jar file in a directory ending in build/lib. When I run this build task, I would like for it to continue building in that directory but ALSO in another directory of my choosing.

May I ask what the actual use-case is for that? This might influence the recommendation.

its for faster testing. I build this file everytime I change something in my code, and if I have to copy and paste this file to the other 2 directories every single time it gets a bit tedious.

Well, you can easily make a task that copies the output of the

jar

task to those two other directories using

copy { ... }

closure and defining your input and outputs properly, but well, I still don't know why you need that. Sounds like a bad practice, but hard to judge with that little information. 🙂

I am testing a minecraft server that requires this jar file in 2 specific directories.

Something like

val copyJars by tasks.registering {
    inputs.file(tasks.jar)
    val outputOne = layout.buildDirectory.file("testing/a/foo.jar")
    outputs.file(outputOne).withPropertyName("outputOne")
    val outputTwo = layout.buildDirectory.file("testing/b/bar.jar")
    outputs.file(outputTwo).withPropertyName("outputTwo")
    doLast {
        copy {
            from(tasks.jar)
            into(outputOne.get().asFile.parentFile)
            rename { outputOne.get().asFile.name }
        }
        copy {
            from(tasks.jar)
            into(outputTwo.get().asFile.parentFile)
            rename { outputTwo.get().asFile.name }
        }
    }
}

or similar Disclaimer: untested

bit tangential, but out of curiosity did they ever move away from needing to physically replace the class files inside the jar for "extensions"?

I thought they introduced some "proper" way that does not require a fat jar, but I recently didn't find information about it, so it might still need a bloody fat jar.

perhaps, its been close to 10 years since i hacked on minecraft with my son

I am altering and adding files to the minecraft source code if that's what you're asking.

ok, so they do still do it similarly. was wondering if MS "fixed" that

Ah, that, there are frameworks doing that for you Spigot and Bukkit or something like that. But you still need a fat jar if you have dependencies you use in your plugin code. That's what i meant.

The build function produces 2 jars, the repacked one and one labelled as "mod-name-sources". I haven't touched the second one as I am unsure what it does.

ah, right.. "mod" that was the name.. not extension

I am not sure where to test the example code Vampire sent. I am new to gradle as well sorry 😅

that was my thought.. to distribute your mod source

The code I sent is for the build script, but only if you use Kotlin DSL. I wouldn't recommend anyone to use the Groovy DSL.

lol

Does the build script go in the build.gradle file?

unless you have a massive legacy build ofc

Never too late to change. It can even be done gradually, they mix just fine. 😉

Does the build script go in the build.gradle file?

build.gradle

IS the build script. But that is Groovy DSL. If it were Kotlin DSL, it would be

build.gradle.kts

.

ok so this project was a template I downloaded to be able to mod. So I am not sure what I can and cannot change.

It can even be done gradually, they mix just fine.

Oh really? i thought they do not , that is super tangential here. i'll look at it "offline"

Where are these tasks created?

Depends which group you assign it to

These were here when I downloaded the template, I want to read about the "assemble" task

As you didn't assign a group if you copied my example, it is in

other

Are you referring to the "other" in my image?

"other" is the default. and is exactly the one he is talking about

Ah I see okay. What about if I want to read about a pre-existing task that I did not create?

"read about"?

sorry, read the code?

iiuc you'd look at the plugin page

Or as you aske for "read the code": https://github.com/gradle/gradle/

for Gradle provided ones. yes

Which is probably all except for the ones in the

fabric

group. For that, probably the

fabric

source respository.

well, generally. some plufins are not good ab ]out that

Where is this plugin portal?

i refrained from using LMGTFY 😉

Better so, it was a great thing, but is extremely ugly and ad-pestered now, unless it changed again since I looked last.

ah, maybe. have not used that in years also