'gw' is a script that automatically search your gradlew when you are inside your Gradle project and execute it.
This is originally inspired by gdub and gradlew-bootstrap.
I worked with a lot of gradle projects, every project has its own Gradle Wrapper. So the global installed one, normally
installed with brew install gradle, is seldom used. In fact, the global installed gradle’s version may conflict with
the project you are working on and some weird and unexpected building failures may happen. The best practice is always
using Gradle Wrapper comes with a project. It's better to not keep a copy of global available gradle.
But keep typing ./gradlew is cumbersome. It becoms even worse when you have to type ../gradlew, or ../../gradlew.
I am a heavy Gradle user, I always need to create a new Gradle project for trying some new ideas, without the globally installed gradle , it is not possible installing Gradle Wrapper into a brand-new project.
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Quoted from gdub
This command is executed by the RHEL VM installer bootstrap script, it means VMs are pre-installed with gw.
Run the following command to get started with GNG. This command requires that you have sudo privileges and curl.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adnovum/gng/master/install.sh | bashJust type gw whenever you need to type gradle or gradlew, then your life will be easier.
To avoid using any system wide Gradle distribution add a gradle alias to gw to your shell's configuration file.
Example bash:
echo "alias gradle=gw" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc