I'm migrating a project to using the modern gradle plugins block to define plugins. Im still using groovy though... not allowed to use kts. it seems like its not allowed to define a variable (like for a kotlin version number). and then reference that in my plugins. is that right? seems crazy to me, but just want a sanity check.

You mean defining a variable before

plugins { ... }

and using it inside?

doesn't really matter to me whether its inside or out. i just have two plugins that can have the same kotlinVersion as a variable and I can't seem to define a variable inside or out.

Ah, yeah, long ago I used Groovy DSL. The plugins block there is way more restricted.

version catalog works with groovy too

Ah, yes, of course that's the right recommendation, should get some sleep 🙂

cant use version catalog yet... so I will use the buildcript suggestion! thanks! hopefully in about a month or so we'll be transitioning to toml and/or kts so ill update then.

You can either put the property to the

gradle.properties

, or you could abuse a

buildscript

block and

ext

properties like

gradle.properties

is definitely the way to go in your case. It is a good intermediate to go before stepping to the version catalog.

Curious why you can't use a version catalog. You don't have to put all your dependencies there, you can start with just your plugins

or even just versions

He can also use to port just one file to Kotlin DSL. But if company landscape says no, you often have no choice.

yeah. not my circus unfortunately. and the TL has... opinions. lol

Send him to me, then he has mine 😄