and the answer is: a logical ‘cacerts’ pointing to a blackhole where it used to be ! So lucky me had a macbook with java 1.6 and a cacerts file that i copied back to my iMac in place of the link. and huston, we have lift off ! had already installed gradle 1.6 so ran that first, then changed build file to use wrapper version 1.6, ran that and it pulled down the 1.6 wrapper which now works fine. see below. Thank you. Pls see photo of your reward below, which of course, i consumed on your behalf, and i can now tell you how much you enjoyed it !
Groovy Version: 2.1.4 JVM: 1.5.0_30 Vendor: Apple Inc. OS: Mac OS X
iMac:menus jim$ gradle -v
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Gradle 1.6
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Gradle build time: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:12:14 AM UTC
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012
Ivy: 2.2.0
JVM: 1.5.0_30 (Apple Inc. 1.5.0_30-161)
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 ppc
iMac:menus jim$ pwd
/Volumes/Media1/Software/menus
iMac:menus jim$ open -e build.gradle
iMac:menus jim$ gradle wrapper
The groovy configuration has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0. Typically, usages of 'groovy' can simply be replaced with 'compile'. In some cases, it may be necessary to additionally configure the 'groovyClasspath' property of GroovyCompile and Groovydoc tasks.
main
test
workingDir is /Volumes/Media1/Software/menus
project is named :root project 'menus'
project.buildDir:/Volumes/Media1/Software/menus/build
MouselessMenus-core-0.1.zip
MouselessMenus-core-0.12.zip
MouselessMenus-core-0.13-src.zip
build/distributions
build/distributions/MouselessMenus-core-0.1.zip
build/distributions
build/distributions/MouselessMenus-core-0.12.zip
:wrapper
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 34.301 secs
iMac:menus jim$ gradlew -v
Downloading http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip
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Unzipping /Volumes/Media/Users/jim/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-1.6-bin/72srdo3a5eb3bic159kar72vok/gradle-1.6-bin.zip to /Volumes/Media/Users/jim/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-1.6-bin/72srdo3a5eb3bic159kar72vok
Set executable permissions for: /Volumes/Media/Users/jim/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-1.6-bin/72srdo3a5eb3bic159kar72vok/gradle-1.6/bin/gradle
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Gradle 1.6
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Gradle build time: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:12:14 AM UTC
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012
Ivy: 2.2.0
JVM: 1.5.0_30 (Apple Inc. 1.5.0_30-161)
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 ppc
