Given we need to follow the Apache rule of not checking
any binaries into the source code, Kafka has always had
a bit of a tricky Gradle bootstrap.
Using ./gradlew as users expect doesn’t work and a
local and compatible version of Gradle was required to
generate the wrapper first.
This patch changes the behavior of the wrapper task to
instead generate a gradlew script that can bootstrap the
jar itself. Additionally it adds a license, removes the bat
script, and handles retries.
The documentation in the readme was also updated.
Going forward patches that upgrade gradle should run
`gradle wrapper` before checking in the change.
With this change users using ./gradlew can be sure they
are always building with the correct version of Gradle.
Reviewers: Viktor Somogyi <viktorsomogyi@gmail.com>, Ismael Juma <ismael@juma.me.uk
Grant Henke
Joe Stein