Replace the nick-fields/retry wrapper around the Gradle invocation with a
curl-based pre-fetch step. The vlc-setup plugin writes its downloads to
${gradleUserHomeDir}/vlcSetup/ with overwrite(false), so dropping the
archives there ahead of time turns vlcDownload / upxDownload into no-ops.
curl --retry-all-errors --retry-max-time 900 tolerates a sustained
get.videolan.org outage far better than the plugin's de.undercouch
Download (retries(4) + 5min readTimeout, which still hit
SocketTimeoutException on Windows).
The actions/cache step at ~/.gradle/vlcSetup still captures the result
for subsequent runs; the prefetch only does real work on cache miss.
The in-build retries(4) in desktopApp/build.gradle.kts stays as a third
line of defense.
URLs and on-disk paths are read straight from the plugin source
(ir.mahozad.vlc-setup 0.1.0); macOS skips UPX because UPX cannot compress
.dylib files.
Claude
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