`gradlew tasks` fails in 2.4 due to not finding GeneratePom task

[Francois_Guillot (François Guillot)]

Found the topic I was thinking about, and @luke_daley answer

Change of behaviour for @Finalize between 2.3 and 2.4 release

The basic problem here is that Gradle no longer creates all tasks. Part of the rules based mechanism is the ability to not create something unless it is needed. Where it’s falling down here is that the constructs you are using don’t actually express that it is needed. Unfortunately, there’s no way right now to express that all CustomTask objects depend on all PublishToIvyRepository tasks. That’s what you really need. It’s coming. Your options for right now are to: Call tasks.realize() at the …

So I did not test it, and it’s not supposed to be used externally, but tasks.realize() shall do the trick, if I understand correctly.