q: are these two providers not supposed to be equivalent?

protected val RealHttp.bind: Http
  @Provides 
  @SomeScope 
  get() = this

@Provides
@SomeScope
fun http(real: RealHttp): Http = real

Those are equivalent yes. Well one minor difference is the first is protected and the second is public.

I may have noticed that other components are creating a new instance of

RealHttp

on every call in the 2nd example. I'll try reproducing it.

I'd actually recommend in this case putting the scope on the

RealHttp

class itself, but that does sound like a bug if they behave differently

update: I think I was wrong. I misread the generated code incorrectly because it wasn't pretty formatted. sorry for the false alarm!

Yeah ideally the generated code should look clear but it can be hard to get quite right. Would certainly accept pr's that improve the formatting.