Gradle is a build system written in groovy. it uses groovy also as the language for its build scripts. it has a powerful multi-project build support. it has a layer on top of ivy that provides a build-by-convention integration for ivy. it gives you always the choice between the flexibility of ant and the convenience of a build-by-convention behavior.

this package contains the gradle wrapper plugin that provides tasks that can download the gradle source distribution or check out gradle from svn. this is useful in those cases when gradle is needed to build a project, but gradle is not installed.