Are there some plugins more "standard" (or widely adopted) to publish libraries (.jar or .framework)...

# gradle

[Sylvain Patenaude]

Are there some plugins more "standard" (or widely adopted) to publish libraries (.jar or .framework) to a Maven repository (such as mavenCentral or jcenter)? It looks that there are several existing ones.

[mbonnin]

You want to look into the maven-publish gradle plugin

[mbonnin]

It can do bintray and sonatype and it's the most up-to-date AFAIK

[octylFractal]

yes, maven-publish is the general standard

[octylFractal]

for publishing to central specifically, I use nexus-publish to ensure it works properly: https://github.com/marcphilipp/nexus-publish-plugin

[mbonnin]

I was going to mention https://github.com/vanniktech/gradle-maven-publish-plugin too. I think this one creates the javadoc/sources artifacts automatically (which maven-publish doesn't do AFAIK)

[Fleshgrinder]

Calling withSourcesJar() and withJavadocJar() isn't much work.

[gildor]

Yes, but it will not work for Android (which is the main target of this library)

[Dariusz Kuc]

having gone through that recently (i.e. publishing multi module Kotlin project to Maven Central using Gradle) I ended up with using
• maven-publish to publish artifacts to the Maven Central
• signing plugin to sign the artifacts
• de.marcphilipp.nexus-publish for creating single staging repository in nexus
• io.codearte.nexus-staging to ensure single staging repository is used for for all artifacts and automatically releasing it at the end

Note that maven-publish will publish to nexus (each artifact ended up in its own staging repo) but it won't automatically release artifacts so in order to avoid manual step I added those 2 extra plugins.

[Dariusz Kuc]

Oh and we had to disable sha256 and sha512 checksums due to https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/11308