what is the point / use of the

metadata

artifact? I was trying to add

com.soywiz:klock

to my multiplatform project, and I was struggling because I couldn't find a recent version for which all artifacts are present in the maven repository. I cloned its source and installed it to my local maven repository. The

klock

artifact is not present, but I tried adding

klock-metadata

as a dependency. It worked in one subproject, although I didn't try compiling, but not in another. @Deactivated User

metadata

is the same as

common

good to know, thank you

no problem. it confused me as well, i’m surprised the kotlin team didn’t anticipate such confusion in having the standard libraries end in

common

and custom libraries end in

metadata

it wouldn't hurt too much to rename it