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Is it an option to not include the

example

build in the root project, but just execute Gradle in the

example

directory? If you for example do

./gradlew -p example help

it works, while

./gradlew :example:help

does not work. I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a limitation. Maybe it is worth to create an issue about it.

can I build a plugin and also use it in the same build?

Depends on how you mean exactly. You can have a composite build where you include a build that builds the plugin and apply it in the including build (like you already do I think?). But you can of course not build a plugin and apply it in the same build, because that's a hen-and-egg situation. You need the plugin to build the plugin, so how to build the plugin if you need the plugin to build the plugin.

no I don't need the plugin to build itself. I have a few "library projects", then I have a plugin that uses these library modules and I have a few projects that use the plugin. generators <- plugin <- examples