Hey I was wondering if it was possible to have a custom version in the `plugins` section. ```val tes...

# gradle

[Tech]

Hey I was wondering if it was possible to have a custom version in the plugins section.

val test_version: String by project
plugins {
  id("random.plugin") version "$test_version"
}

I want to just have a single value to update that will update the version of a plugin in my entire project.

The current error being thrown is 'val test_version: String' can't be called in this context by implicit receiver. Use the explicit one if necessary

[ephemient]

no, the plugins block (and a couple others, such as buildscript) are executed independently of the rest of the build script

[ephemient]

those blocks affect the classpath so there's a chicken-and-egg problem otherwise

[Tech]

Ah gotcha.
I'm running a monorepo setup so just being able to modify plugin versions like that would've been useful

[ephemient]

why not use version catalogs? that is officially supported

[Tech]

Oh never heard of that, I'll look into it

[Tech]

Oh this looks much better, thank you

[Vampire]

And before that was the pluginManagement { plugins { ... } } block which does exactly what you want too, defining a version that is used if a plugin is applied without version.

But yeah nowadays I'd also recommend version catalogs

[Tech]

Yeah I've already implemented it with version catalogs, seems to be working fine.
Thank you everyone