Allow a zipTree or tarTree to be created from the output of a task

[adammurdoch]

The zipTree() and tarTree() methods discard any details about the tasks that produce the archive, making it very difficult to create a tree from an archive that is built by a task.

Expected Behavior

Provide an easy way to take a zip or tar archive produced by a task, represented as a Provider, and map it to a FileTree that honors the producing task information. Ideally, querying the contents of the tree would fail with a nice message if the task has not yet completed in this build.

Current Behavior

The FileTree discard producer task information.

Context

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[jbartok]

Thank you for your interest in Gradle!

This feature request is in the backlog of the relevant team, but this area of Gradle is currently not in focus. It might take a while before it gets implemented.