Execute tasks within a task

[jmccay-work (Joseph L. McCay)]

@Vampire

That your println is executed is, because you do it at configuration phase, not execution phase.
To do it in execution phase, do it in a doLast { ... } block.

That changed worked. I am just using the println as a bit of information before the publication tasks are called. Right now, I am rely on both the dependsOn statement to execute the two publishing statements. Unfortunately, because I am using the dependsOn to call the two publishing tasks, the informational message is posted after the publishing is down instead of before it.

I have two further questions.

1. Is there a framework in Gradle to post the informational message without calling the system out?

2. Is there another way to execute the two tasks after I post the informational message?

tasks.register("allMyPublishing") {
    dependsOn tasks.publishToMavenLocal
    dependsOn tasks.publishReleasePublicationToCloudsmithRepository
    doFirst {
        System.out.println("Publishing to MavanLocal and Cloudsmith repositories.")
    }
}