So there actually is NO WAY to add an external project to my project dependencies unless the “external” project is contained within the root folder my dependent project? Goddamn are you nuts? this is the ONLY ONE fucking thing a build tool should care about! And you are “convinced that Gradle 2.0 is the best available enterprise build system”??? wow… bashfulness… Well you know what? of course you are “far from done”, you are also very far away from decency too…