Is it possible to share configurations, especially...

# gradle

[DALDEI]

Is it possible to share configurations, especially resolved configurations, from other projects i a multi-project build ?
I have a build with about 20 sub-projects which include many dependancies
the build configuration time is very slow -- I watch the gradle output as it re-resolves the same configurations over and over for each project.
( I have allprojects { dependencies { implementation somecommonconfig } } } )
If the configuration is the same among child projects -- is there a way to just put it in the root project and reference it in child projects so it doesn havev
to re-resolve everything ? This could have complications if child projects have different repository sets -- so perhaps that would need to be constrained, or ignored .

[gildor]

Looks that you have some problem in one of your plugins that cause Dependency resolution on configuration time. I would check build scan of your project to see what is going on

[DALDEI]

Thanks. You are correct. The vast time was during configuration. Build Scan didnt indicate which but gave me a clue. I am testing now.
I belive its due to using the spring bom plugin, but giving it a changing version# ( :11+) I then introspect the discovered version number to force on all jars from the same module -- (aws sdk in this case).
This helped solve problems of transitive dependanciees not using the BOM so I'd get 2-3 versions of the same file. But now I suspect I implemented this badly,
and should instead pick the version upfront

[gildor]

Yes, build scan only can show you that dependencies are resolved in configuration time.

[gildor]

there is a snippet somewhere, that helps find bad plugin, where you add listener on dependency resolution and throw an exception if some plugin tries to resolve dependencies in configuration time.

[DALDEI]

Forcing a fixed version number instead of :11+ and not using the resolved version from the BOM as the version for the dependant files worked. Now 0.00 of time is spent dependency resolving during config time

[DALDEI]

Total build time improved for cases where there was mostly no work to be done in tasks. Worse case clean build same appox time.