build: clear Gradle 10 deprecations, bump wrapper to 9.7.0

[soloturn]

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Summary

• Clears the Gradle-10-scheduled-for-removal deprecations found in build.gradle: Groovy space-assignment (sourceCompatibility, targetCompatibility, name, url, a task description) and multi-string group:/name:/version: dependency notation.
• Bumps the wrapper from 9.6.1 to 9.7.0 so the warnings are visible at all.

Test plan

• ./gradlew help --warning-mode=all — clean of Gradle-10 warnings, BUILD SUCCESSFUL. (swig/cmake not installed here, so the native-build tasks themselves weren't exercised; every fixed line was a script-level assignment evaluated during configuration regardless of which task runs.)

Related

• Companion to build: clear Gradle 10 deprecations, bump wrapper to 9.7.0 Terasology#5362, which prompted this sweep across the Terasology-ecosystem repos.

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated the Gradle build tooling to version 9.7.0.
  • Modernized build configuration syntax without changing runtime behavior or configured values.

Walkthrough

The build script now uses equivalent Gradle assignment syntax. Java 17 settings and configured values remain unchanged. The Gradle wrapper distribution updates from 9.6.1 to 9.7.0.

Changes

Gradle modernization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build configuration and wrapper update build.gradle, gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Gradle declarations use assignment-based syntax. Java compatibility remains 17. Repository, dependency, and archive description values remain unchanged. The wrapper updates to Gradle 9.7.0.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b9ddb

This localized build-configuration cleanup and Gradle wrapper update has no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining after normal checks and review.

Poem

I’m a rabbit with a build to run,
Gradle syntax now hops in fun.
Java stays at seventeen,
The wrapper wears nine-seven-green.
Clean declarations, ready to leap!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the deprecation cleanup and Gradle wrapper update.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the Gradle deprecation cleanup, wrapper update, and validation results.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch build/clear-gradle-10-deprecations

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