Checkstyle 6.8 release brake compatibility with gradle checkstyle plugin

[romani (Roman Ivanov)]

Checkstyle issue: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/1108 description of required code update was added.

Error : https://travis-ci.org/sevntu-checkstyle/checkstyle-samples/jobs/68755365

Please update checkstyle plugin to be compatible with Checkstyle 6.8

[mark_vieira]

This has been reported in another topic.

Checkstyle plugin does not work with CS 6.8

We can configure the Checkstyle plugin to use a particular CS version: checkstyle { toolVersion = "6.8" } However, this will result in an exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask This is because CheckStyleTask was renamed to CheckstyleAntTask in version 6.8. The Gradle Checkstyle plugin should try to load the old and new class, too, and use the one which is present.