Distribution

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API Documentation:	`Distribution`

A distribution allows to bundle an application or a library including dependencies, sources...

Property	Description
`baseName`	Deprecated Replaced The baseName of the distribution, used in naming the distribution archives.
`contents`	The contents of the distribution.
`distributionBaseName`	Incubating The baseName of the distribution, used in naming the distribution archives.
`name`	The name of this distribution.

Method	Description
`contents(action)`	Configures the contents of the distribution.

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Note: This property is deprecated and will be removed in the next major version of Gradle.

Note: This property has been replaced by distributionBaseName.

The baseName of the distribution, used in naming the distribution archives.

If the Distribution.getName() of this distribution is "main" this defaults to the project's name. Otherwise it is "$project.name-$this.name".

The contents of the distribution.

Note: This property is incubating and may change in a future version of Gradle.

The baseName of the distribution, used in naming the distribution archives.

If the Distribution.getName() of this distribution is "main" this defaults to the project's name. Otherwise it is "$project.name-$this.name".

The name of this distribution.

Configures the contents of the distribution.

Can be used to configure the contents of the distribution:

plugins {
    id 'distribution'
}

distributions {
    main {
        contents {
            from "src/readme"
        }
    }
}

The DSL inside the contents\{ } block is the same DSL used for Copy tasks.