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how do I use version catalogs in convention plugins? looks like the libs object is not available

See <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/version_catalogs.html#sec:buildsrc-version-catalog|docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/version_catalogs.html#…>
```val libs = extensions.getByType(VersionCatalogsExtension::class.java).named("libs")
// …
libs.findLibrary("guava").get()```


<https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/dev.panuszewski.typesafe-conventions|plugins.gradle.org/plugin/dev.panuszewski.typesafe-conventions>

The alias usage in the plugins block has a small disadvantage: the plugins block is extracted in a small Kotlin script file. The handwritten parser of the plugins block does not support aliases, so it uses another Kotlin compilation as a fallback for the extracted plugins block, additional to the main compilation of the precompiled Kotlin scripts. 