Gradle: Make a 3rd party jar available to local gradle repository

Question

currently, I\'m testing Gradle as an alternative to Maven. In my projects, there are some 3rd party jars, which aren\'t available in any (Maven) repositories. My problem is

Answer 1

A more comprehensive answer was given on a mailing list by Adam Murdoch at http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/Gradle-Make-a-3rd-party-jar-available-to-local-gradle-repository-td1431953.html

As of April 2010 there was no simple way to add a new jarfile to your ~/.gradle repository. Currently researching whether this has changed.

As of October 2014, this is still the case--because gradle does an md5 checksum of your jarfile, you can't simply download it and put it into a directory under .gradle/caches, and gradle doesn't, as far as I can tell, have any tasks which let you take a local file and push that file to its cache.