It's been a while since I last looked at this, but I'm now faced with a forced migration from Sonatype Nexus to JFrog Artifactory. The last time I looked at this the official artifactory gradle plugin was a Lovecraftian horror show of cross-project configuration and afterEvaluate logic. Does anyone know if things have got any better in the intervening years, or if there are any reasonable alternatives to the official JFrog plugin that allows us to still use the JFrog server side features (mostly the build metadata stuff).

For me (not using JFrog but Nexus at work) it did not change all I hear related to JFrog Gradle plugins is whining that it is bullshit and not working and in the end people do not use it but just plain

maven-publish

iirc.

Thanks, the last time this came up a bunch of us complained about the way it integrates being very anti-(modern)-Gradle, and many people stated they just used default publication and eschewed the extra features of JFrog. I'll probably spend a while contemplating building a custom solution again and see how enthusiastic I get. Maybe all the looming issues of Gradle 9 and configuration cache will spur a rework of the official plugin.