From the course: Learning Gradle
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Using the Gradle Wrapper
- At the beginning of this chapter, we installed the gradle runtime with a specific version Gradle API continues to evolve with newer versions of gradle releases. It's not unheard of that a breaking change is introduced between two major versions. As soon as you want to upgrade to the newer version of gradle, you'll have to install the new runtime and potentially change the use of the API in your build script. Think of this workflow in the context of an enterprise environment, you may not just work on a single project, but maybe 10, or 20. That's especially common in the world of Microservices. Do you really want to maintain a set of gradle installations on your developer machine and switch between them depending on the project that you're working on? Not really. Gradle offers a cure for this problem, you can standardize the gradle version for project that is compatible with it by checking in a couple of files.…
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