my copy task hangs gradle

# kobalt

[groostav]

my copy task hangs gradle

[groostav]

in both groovy and kotlin

tasks.register<Copy>("vcpkgMakeManifest") {
        dependsOn(":api:vcpkgBootstrap")

        from("vcpkg.template.json")
        rename("vcpkg.template.json", "vcpkg.json") //TODO: is this a regex?
        into("$rootDir/vcpkg")
        filter { line ->
            line.replace("%volitionFullVersion%", volitionFullVersion)
                .replace("%protobufVersion%", protobufVersion)
                .replace("%grpcVersion%", grpcVersion)
        }
    }

hangs gradle.

[cedric]

So ugly 😕

[groostav]

its so disappointing. If it was ugly because I was using things like Files.readALlLines() or Files.copy() I could forgive it because then im just using standard kotlin file manipulations, but im not, im using their custom syntax.

Is their custom syntax slick? Not particularly.

I also only just learned, thanks to kotlins parameter labelling feature, that `rename()`'s first parameter is sourceRegEx. so now im wondering if maybe gradle is hanging --a completely rediculoous failure mode for such a basic behaviour-- because of some kind of exponential backoff in vcpkg[WILDCARD]template[WILDCARD]json, so I tried replacing . with `\\.`and... still hangs.

my original suspcicion was that this is some bug in the async code communicating between the gradle client and the gradle daemon. Is that suspicion correct?

I just... this isnt the problem i want to be working on. My real problem is that visual studio's include paths are messed up. This is a problem I have to solve on the way to my real problem. I feel like this so often with gradle and its exasperating.