Adding a gradle plugin to be able to run PackSquash tool

[misterquestions]

Related problem or need

When versioning your resource packs and doing so inside a gradle multi-module project, it could be really usefull to have PackSquash gradle task that can have options like the sourceSets path (to know which files to include/exclude) and the outputDirectory for it.

Proposed solution

Having the ability to add a gradle plugin with the packSquash tool defining it in the build.gradle like this:

plugins {
    id 'packsquash'
}

packSquash {
    include 'src' // Maybe just take this by default
    excluse 'some-file.txt'

    outputDir rootProject.file('build/release')
}

Alternative solutions

Nothing I can think of right now

Additional context

No response

[AlexTMjugador]

Hi. First of all, thank you for the suggestion! 😄

As someone who prefers to use build tools that don't rely on a domain-specific language, I don't think I'm qualified enough to realize the usefulness of such a Gradle plugin. My use of Gradle has been limited to building existing projects and cobbling basic stuff together without researching how it really works.

That being said, I can see how this idea may have some technical merit, and I'd support the development of such a plugin by contributors.

Would you mind sharing more details about your Gradle workflow? How you envision the described Gradle plugin fitting into it? Why not use a task that runs the PackSquash CLI instead?