Where do you usually publish your kotlin libraries...

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[Yan Pujante]

Where do you usually publish your kotlin libraries? On Maven Central (since the sunset of bintray/jcenter)? If so what do you use for publishing? It seems to me to be so overly complicated (pgp signing, staging area, manual intervention...). Has anybody made it simple?

[nfrankel]

bintray did
and they shut down the service
🤷‍♂️

[Big Chungus]

There's also https://jitpack.io/

[Big Chungus]

As for publishing to central, there's a great gradle plugin https://github.com/gradle-nexus/publish-plugin

[nfrankel]

jitpack is a bit different
imho, it’s more like a quick-and-dirty hack

[Yan Pujante]

it's also not free... and after being burned by bintray I am not sure who to trust now...

[Big Chungus]

Agreed, it's good for new libs, but everyone should plan for maven central eventually

[Big Chungus]

jitpack is free for open source

[Big Chungus]

If you're looking for something private, why not artifactory or github packages?

[Yan Pujante]

no actually it is for open source libs

[Dariusz Kuc]

There is no need for manual release step to maven central - you can use plugins that will release automatically. You should be using some automation anyway so those extra steps like signing artifacts is one time setup anyway

[Yan Pujante]

@Dariusz Kuc sure but how?

[Dariusz Kuc]

There are number of projects publishing to central

[Dariusz Kuc]

Including https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin (which I maintain)

[Dariusz Kuc]

There should be lots of articles on medium talking about this

[Yan Pujante]

I will look into it. Thanks

[KamilH]

This article covers all of the steps including auto release step and CI integration:
https://getstream.io/blog/publishing-libraries-to-mavencentral-2021/
I used it in my migration from the JCenter and it was really easy to accomplish thanks to this great article (except waiting for Sonatype acceptance it took me around 3 hours to migrate)

[Yan Pujante]

thank you for the link