Is there a sane way to get the version of an (unapplied) settings plugin in a conventional plugin inside

buildSrc

?

If the plugin somehow provides its version. From Gradle afair you cannot even get the version of a plugin if it is applied.

From Gradle afair you cannot even get the version of a plugin if it is applied.

Oh, I though this changed at some point when the plugin manager API was introduced...

Not that I remember, but that doesn't mean too much 😄

The question can be more-or-less rephrased as: is there a sane way to get the version of a dependency JAR in the classpath in a conventional plugin inside

buildSrc

? (actually it'll be the context classloader rather than "the classpath", but you get the idea)

There is a getVersion() for dependencies but there is no getVersion() method for plugins (even an applied one). TLDR: no.

On the other hand, https://github.com/gradle/github-dependency-graph-gradle-plugin is somehow able to determine the version of plugins. I need to investigate this further.

I don't think it is.