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Did the root `build.gradle` / `build.gradle.kts` file "disappear" in Gradle 8.x?

<https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html>

No, but project build scripts aren't required, so if the root project has nothing special (i.e. "does nothing") you can either have an empty build script or omit it entirely.

Thank you! It seems that `gradle init` initializes the project this way; I _think_ that in the past, it created a root `build.gradle.kts` ... Anyway, I created the file manually and Gradle picked it up.

For Kotlin projects with more than one sub-project, I think it's not supported to omit the root build script, as one needs to put the Kotlin plugin initialization in the root build script:
```plugins {
    kotlin("jvm") version "2.0.0" apply false
}```
Then, in each subproject-specific build script, we must declare it again without specifying the version.
```plugins {
    kotlin("jvm")
}```