Hi folks, can’t seem to find any documentation on publishing a “common” artifact via the kotlin-multiplatform plugin. Are there any example projects doing so?

It’s called

metadata

. Don’t know why.

gotcha, thank you!

Are you looking for example projects publishing libraries?

@serebit FYI the name changed from

common

to

metadata

because we expected the meaning of these artifact to change, too, and this is kind of what's happening. We have plans to update the layout of these artifacts, which will contain the Kotlin metadata for all of the library source sets and some additional data describing the project structure, which should help the consumer side correctly discover the library declarations. I agree that the name change might have led to some unexpected confusion, but I suppose leaving the

*-common

suffix would eventually bring even more perplexity, as the old-style

*-common

artifacts and the new

*-metadata

ones won't be interchangeable really soon (though the tools will still be able to read both, of course). The word metadata is used here as it's what we call the binaries that are produced from common code and contain serialized Kotlin declarations.

Thanks for that explanation Sergey!

Yep, that makes sense to me, thanks for the explanation!