Improve Gradle build scripts

Closes gh-820

Author: rainboyan

build.gradle

@@ -138,7 +138,11 @@ subprojects { project ->
     ext.isTestSuite = project.name.startsWith("grace-test-suite")
     ext.isCiBuild = project.hasProperty("isCiBuild") || System.getenv().get("CI") as Boolean
     ext.pomInfo = {
-        if (project.name != 'grace-gradle-plugin') {
+        if (project.name == 'grace-gradle-plugin') {
+            delegate.name "Grace Gradle Plugin"
+            delegate.description "Grace Framework : A Gradle plugin for Grace which provides a bunch of useful plugins"
+        }
+        else {
             def projectName = project.name.split('-')*.capitalize().join(' ')
             delegate.name projectName
             delegate.description "Grace Framework : $projectName"
@@ -223,11 +227,9 @@ subprojects { project ->
         }
 
         afterEvaluate {
-            if (project.name != 'grace-gradle-plugin') {
-                signing {
-                    required { isReleaseVersion && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("publish") }
-                    sign publishing.publications.maven
-                }
+            signing {
+                required { isReleaseVersion && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("publish") }
+                sign publishing.publications.maven
             }
         }
 

grace-gradle-plugin/build.gradle

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ dependencies {
 }
 
 gradlePlugin {
+    automatedPublishing = false
+
     plugins {
         graceCore {
             displayName = "Grace Core Gradle Plugin"
@@ -127,38 +129,6 @@ tasks.withType(Copy) {
     }
 }
 
-if (isReleaseVersion) {
-    afterEvaluate {
-        signing {
-            required { isReleaseVersion && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("publish") }
-            Publication[] publications = new Publication[publishing.publications.size()]
-            publishing.publications.findAll().toArray(publications)
-            sign(publications)
-        }
-    }
-
-    tasks.withType(Sign) {
-        onlyIf { isReleaseVersion }
-    }
-}
-
 tasks.withType(io.github.gradlenexus.publishplugin.InitializeNexusStagingRepository).configureEach {
     shouldRunAfter(tasks.withType(Sign))
 }
-
-publishing {
-    publications {
-        pluginMaven(MavenPublication) {
-            pom {
-                name = "Grace Gradle Plugin"
-                description = "A Gradle plugin for Grace which provides a bunch of useful plugins"
-
-                withXml {
-                    def xml = asNode()
-
-                    xml.children().last() + pomInfo
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}

gradle/assemble.gradle

@@ -126,20 +126,10 @@ task install(dependsOn: populateDependencies) { task ->
 task publishToDist { task ->
     subprojects { Project project ->
         if (!project.name.startsWith('grace-test-suite') && !project.name.startsWith('grace-dependencies') && !project.name.startsWith('grace-bom')) {
-            if (project.name == 'grace-gradle-plugin') {
-                project.tasks.named("generateMetadataFileForIvyPublication").configure {
-                    enabled = false
-                }
-                project.tasks.named("generateMetadataFileForPluginIvyPublication").configure {
-                    enabled = false
-                }
-                task.dependsOn("$project.name:publishAllPublicationsToGraceDistRepository")
-            } else {
-                project.tasks.named("generateMetadataFileForIvyPublication").configure {
-                    enabled = false
-                }
-                task.dependsOn("$project.name:publishAllPublicationsToGraceDistRepository")
+            project.tasks.named("generateMetadataFileForIvyPublication").configure {
+                enabled = false
             }
+            task.dependsOn("$project.name:publishAllPublicationsToGraceDistRepository")
         }
     }
 }