Hi, I'm trying to build my first multi platform project using the new multi platform plugin. Before I used to build the platform apps as sub-modules but now it's as sourcesets can someone explain why jetbrains decide to switch to sourcesets and is it possible to still use the new plugin but with the submodule fashion?

As someone who’s worked with both, the source set method has a much more simplified configuration and isn’t as much of a hassle to set up

Yes, I'm already experiencing with it, right now... It's kind of a big migration from the first way. Can we actually apply the multi platform on sub-modules? Just like if we were building a library?

Yep! That’s actually what I’m doing with one of my projects. I have the runtime in one module, which is multiplatform, and samples in another module.

Is your project open source?

Yeah, it’s at https://gitlab.com/serebit/diskord

Also, you can leave the project structure as is and override source set paths to point into the modules, so that your JVM code would live in

jvm/src/main/kotlin

vs

src/jvmMain/kotlin

Great idea, I kind of did the same thing to get the android preset working with the android.library plugin

can someone explain why jetbrains decide to switch to sourcesets

See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-23930

I feel though that a lot of flexibility, that came from treating targets as separate modules, has been lost in the process