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-Trick gradle into thinking that loom is signed to skip over transforming all classes in the jar.
-This is required to get the bootstrap to well bootstrap on older gradle versions that dont support java 16.
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-See https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/core/src/main/java/org/gradle/internal/classpath/InstrumentingClasspathFileTransformer.java#L129
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