Hi I want to move some versions into a configuration so that I can use that in both buildSrc and src. I thought about moving it to the settings.gradle.kts. Does buildSrc have access to that and how do I use settings in my build.gradle.kts?

what is “src”? You want to use it on runtime of your application?

I have deps that line up with my application and build (e.g. junit)

Yeah, there is easy way. Only parse some properties file in buildSrc/build.gradle and do the same in buildSrc/src You can also parse only once, and set sytem property, but not sure that it’s good way

can I name the properties file something other than project.properties?

Yes, it can be any properties file

Is there something built in like: val kotlinVersion by properties("../file.properties")

this file will not be parsed automatically. you have to do that manually (there is a class for that)

To this I end I tend to generate source in buildSrc so the properties file only has to be parsed once (the main build.gradle.kts itself has the generated class on the classpath): https://github.com/FTSRG/theta/blob/750815bbdcedcd3826ddbcb3ddbc030280d7151b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts#L46 I should probably extract this into a plugin, though.

You need something like that

Properties().load(File("some.properties").reader())

the whole thing would be a non issue for me if managing deps was as neat as in node.js (e.g. locking version ranges)

Gradle has version locking and ranges

ok, nvm then 🙂