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You can it only use like that with a hack-around. Alternatively you could use the type-unsafe string-based API to access the catalog. See here for more information including my hack-around: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/15383

Also, in your precompiled script plugin you can't use plugin with version, so just use

id("com.diffplug.spotless")

without version in convention plugin and relevant dependency (from catalog) in implementation/api configuration of your

buildSrc/build.gradle

. See also: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/18620

tnx everybody for the help 👍

Also, in your precompiled script plugin you can't use plugin with version

That's not true any longer, is it? At least if the versions are consistent. Or was that only in a different part?

Nah, it was about plugin versions in subprojects when same version set there in the root project

ic, thx