Hello, I got a particular situation, just as I like :slightly_smiling_face: We got a projects struct...

# gradle

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Hello, I got a particular situation, just as I like 🙂
We got a projects structure like

root
  ( modules )
  + gradle
    ( plugins )
    + publish
      - libraries ( plugin )
      - plugins ( plugin )

The goal is to have

// root
plugins {
  id("publish-libraries")
}

// gradle
plugins {
  id("publish-plugins")
}

The problem is that if I apply publish-plugins to gradle project or one of its module , root does not find the plugins in gradle 😕

org.gradle.internal.exceptions.LocationAwareException: Build file '/Users/davide/Dev/Android/Workspace/xxx/build.gradle.kts' line: 28
Plugin [id: 'my-plugin'] was not found in any of the following sources:

( The gradle project builds correctly though )

[gildor]

If I understood your problem correctly, you should add this gradle modile with plugins to build script classpath, it's not auto-discoverable

[gildor]

But also you can just use buildSrc instead, it will be connected automatically

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Well, actually I'm trying to replace buildSrc with composite builds, but that's another thing 🙂
I have

// a
includeBuild("b") 
includeBuild("c")

// b
includeBuild("c")

Everything is fine if a applies b as pluging OR b applies c as pluging, but not both at the same time.

Basically what I'm trying now and I think it will fix it is to publish c on Gradle Portal, but that's ugly, specially considering that c should be for internal purposes only

[gildor]

what is the point replace buildSrc? I mean I understand, you can have multiple composite builds, but until tooling doesn’t support it properly I would change it

[gildor]

anyway, hard to say something without some sample where it reproducible

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

I have a library for some Gradle utils that also includes serialization, having it in the classpath through buildSrc caused problem every time had to update serialization because of the breaking changes.
Now I converted my lib to plugin and I solved the problem, but this project still using buildSrc with my lib and so we're blocked to update to Kotlin 1.4

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

I'll try to create a minimal project that reproduce it later