pd93
commented
1 year ago could take less care about backward compatibility
Task already supports a wide variety of official and community-made installation methods and will always need to be backwards-compatible for non major version releases regardless of a script like this existing.
However, I don't see why something like this can't also exist. If somebody is willing to contribute, then I'm sure the installation page could be updated to include it.
Suggestions on how a user might install something like this are welcome. i.e. Do they just copy/paste the script into their project? I'm not particularly familiar with how gradlew works other than running it on other people's projects. Maybe our installation script could have a --wrapper flag added that will insert this script into your project rather than installing task globally?
For anyone else that ends up on this issue, I also recommend looking at tools like Nix which are designed to manage project dependencies with specific versions - though I'm aware that not everyone likes Nix :P
krystian-panek-vmltech
Task has install script which installs Tool OS-wide. However, it would be nice to connect the Task tool version to concrete projects in which it is being used by wrapper script concept like e.g in Gradle - https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html
Right now I implemented my own wrapper script, however, it would be nice to have such a feature prepared in the Task tool project as well.
The value given here is that nobody needs to care about the version of the Task tool used in the project as the tool is downloaded automatically in a version compatible with the project. This is especially cool for Task tool maintainers as they could take less care about backward compatibility, so this feature is a win-win.