so I decided to revisit the build service idea (for auto closable)

An exception occurred applying plugin request [id: 'com.xenoterracide.gradle.sem-ver']
> Failed to apply plugin 'com.xenoterracide.gradle.sem-ver'.
   > Could not create an instance of type com.xenoterracide.gradle.semver.AbstractGitService$Params.
      > Could not generate a decorated class for type AbstractGitService.Params.
         > Cannot have abstract method Params.projectDir().

is that the right

Params

? Error message says

Params.projectDir

but the class has

projectDirectory

. Perhaps it should be

public abstract class AbstractGitService implements BuildService<AbstractGitService.Params>, AutoCloseable

?

As the right

Params

is imported, I guess it is the right one and the error message was manually mistyped. Try naming the param

get...()

@Vampire yeah, that was it