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@Chris Lee Sorry moving thread here since i realized i posted in the wrong channel 🙃

The closest you can get is to provide some object representing the version on doing your computation (lazily, once) in toString().

Could you expand on this? Essentially have a POJO that contains all the info and do the computation in

toString()

?

That’s correct. It isn’t pretty.

Thank you, I'll play around with that 🫡

@Nicholas Doglio we are using custom plugin which used internally nebula plugin to calculate version based on tags, available release branches and branch where you are. we are calling it like:

tasks.register('projectVersion') {
	doLast {
		println "${project.version}"
	}
}

to get project version we can call:

./gradlew projectVersion

At one point I was using such a thing to compute the version from a `git describe`: https://github.com/tbroyer/gradle-incap-helper/blob/21afe339d6281ee040db5547cbded7ff21b59ae8/build-logic/src/main/kotlin/VersionFromGit.kt

@Thomas Broyer thats very close to what I ended up with!

using

toString

allows you to defer the computation until the first use of the version.