I guess there's no way to manage kotlin (or other ...

# refreshversions

[dave08]

I guess there's no way to manage kotlin (or other plugin) versions with refreshVersions (or is there)?

[pgreze]

There is! About kotlin, you have a sample in the repo:
1. https://github.com/jmfayard/refreshVersions/blob/b7a1862833dbe3a18a5e5eaf34d9b62c39fdfa28/sample-kotlin/versions.properties#L56
2. https://github.com/jmfayard/refreshVersions/blob/main/sample-kotlin/build.gradle.kts#L15
About other plugins, the documentation is giving good examples: https://jmfayard.github.io/refreshVersions/add-dependencies/#add-gradle-plugins

[dave08]

So I just leave out the Kotlin version and the plugin takes care of things? By plugins, I meant the ones in the plugins block, like shadowJar, the android plugin, etc...

[dave08]

I don't think I saw anything mentioned about the plugin block in the docs, and assumed that using "_" as a kotlin version wouldn't be supported...

[dave08]

I tried leaving the kotlin version out in my root build.gradle.kts, and got:

Build file '.../build.gradle.kts' line: 3

Plugin [id: 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm'] was not found in any of the following sources:

[dave08]

OH... I had to add version.kotlin=1.4.32 in the versions.properties file manually... even though in regular deps the plugin does that automatically...

[dave08]

Thanks! I just figured all of this out. Wondering if in the future it would be possible to let refreshVersions generate those entries for plugins when no version is specified?

[pgreze]

OH... I had to add version.kotlin=1.4.32 in the versions.properties file manually... even though in regular deps the plugin does that automatically...

Humm I guess that’s something that could be improved 🤔
Do you mind searching for an existing Github issue and if not existing, report this issue?

[dave08]

I didn't really find this specific request, so I opened one: https://github.com/jmfayard/refreshVersions/issues/334