[GEODE-5423] Improve Gradle configuration performance

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: build
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Houghton
• Created: 12/Jul/18 17:37
• Updated: 03/Oct/18 21:37
• Resolved: 13/Jul/18 16:52

Description

Clean builds spend minutes of time doing download and unzip of old Geode builds during `configure` step of Gradle. Moving this to the `execute` step allows other tasks to run in parallel, and allows caching of the dependency, instead of checking its existence on every build.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2133