Sterling Greene

### Expected Behavior It should be easy to understand which version of Java may be used to run a build. ### Current Behavior (optional) _No response_ ### Context `gradle -v`...

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Dogfood Daemon JVM criteria with 8.8 RC1

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PlayApplication lost its configurable "assets"

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This behaves somewhat like a source set, so I don't know if it makes sense to make `PublicAssets` another source set type or just make it configurable in the `PlayExtension`....

Avoid use of `afterEvaluate`

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This can wait until later, but we should be judicious in the use of `afterEvaluate`. This has been good so far.

Simplify/Remove unused abstractions

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I think the Compiler, CompileSpec, PlayCompileSpec, etc are all unnecessary abstractions.

Extra SLF4J noise in console?

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I'm seeing these kinds of messages when building the play-2.6 sample: > SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings. > SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/sterling/.gradle/caches/5.1-20181207050309+0000/generated-gradle-jars/gradle-api-5.1-20181207050309+0000.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class] > SLF4J: Found binding in...

Expand CI coverage to other platforms

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ref: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/multi-os/ Tests should run on Windows and maybe macOS. This can wait for later.

Sg/89/merge/april19

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