I agree that order of execution is sometimes problematic in Groovy and you have to use evaluationDependsOn() or afterEvaluate {}. I don't think the DSLs are per

I agree that order of execution is sometimes problematic in Groovy and you have to use evaluationDependsOn() or afterEvaluate {}. I don't think the DSLs are per se particularly problematic; they generally just set some properties of the task (when they're more complex and yet the abstraction leaks, then they do more harm than do). But yes, the documentation is awful, and is IMO the biggest problem with Gradle.