Ever had to look up operating system or architecture details in a build script? Yes, it's PITA. You either have to fiddle with reading system properties (and half of the time you can never remember what the correct values are) OR you try to access the internal class

OperatingSystem

. Well, you don't have to suffer. You can have all that information (and more) with the Operating System plugin. It adds an extension called

OS

. What's new with the latest release? • There is a version that you can apply to

settings.gradle(.kts)

• If you work with variants you can even obtain the correct values you need for operating system and machine architecture. • If you need to look up values for OS/Arch for anything other that what Gradle is running on, you can do that do now via

getOsTypes()

and

getArchitectures()

. Hope it helps to resolve some pain for some of you. See the link for more details. os-gradle.ysb33r.org/operatingsystem-gradle-plugin/3.0.1/usage.html

Actually, there is also

Os

from Ant available which is not internal, and there is also the

osdetector

Gradle plugin by Google. :-)

I should put that in the docs as alternatives

Google has not historically been good at writing gradle plugins that follow best practices. Is that plugin good / maintained?

osdetector

last release 2023

Didn't look at its source for quite a while, so don't remember. Maybe not.

I've added some docs comparing the two plugins os-gradle.ysb33r.org/operatingsystem-gradle-plugin/3.0.2/alternatives.html

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I'm not aware that one could use the same.

Sure, just have it

Plugin<PluginAware>

, then check the argument type.

Thanks for the tip. I'm just wondering that if one uses the same id, then people might assume that exactly the same functionality is available in Project & Settings.

If you apply it to multiple projects, or to settings and project, does it redetect multiple times, or does it use e.g. a build service? Iirc the osdetector plugin detects for each project it is applied to separately.

Theoretically it should only detect once as it refers to

OperatingSystem.current()

internally which in turn just refers to an internal

static final

. Of course with different classloaders it might actually detect more than once. Actual code is here gitlab.com/ysb33rOrg/gradle/grolifant/-/blob/…/OperatingSystem.java?ref_type=heads and here gitlab.com/ysb33rOrg/gradle/grolifant/-/blob/…/OperatingSystemUtils.groovy?ref_type=heads