I have a bit of an unusual need. In my

build.gradle.kts

file I want to add an enterprise plugin which is located in our internal repositories.

plugins {
  id("my.enterprise.plugin") version "1.0.0"
}

In order to do that I need to add the repository in

pluginManagement.repositories

. But the issue here is that in order to add that repository I need to use a plugin:

pluginManagement {
  plugins {
    id("sh.tnn") version "0.3.3"
  }
  repositories {
    github.use("myenterprise", "plugin") // github.use is added by sh.tnn
  }
}

The problem is that the

github

extension is not found (it is definitely registered as an extension), but I fear that Kotlin / Gradle does not detect it early enough. Any tips?

pluginManagement

is evaluated before any plugins are applied, and I don't think that will ever change as it's a chicken-and-egg problem

Hmm.. How should I go on about this? Is there no way to get a plugin to load before

pluginManagement

?

no there isn't. for this particular case you will have to configure the plugin repositories directly

That's sad 😞

there's pluginManagement.repositories and dependencyResolutionManagement.repositories, which together should cover most use cases within a build

You could use an init script.

They are useful for various purposes:

• Setting up enterprise-wide configurations (e.g., custom plugin locations)

• ...

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/init_scripts.html