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are you referring to its maven coordinates? test kit is part of the gradle distribution. (I think)

yes, and the repo, I tried in maven central and in this repo <https://repo.gradle.org/> but I can't find the last one

`gradleTestKit()` returns a special value which is handled internally by Gradle: <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/core/src/main/java/org/gradle/api/internal/artifacts/dsl/dependencies/DependencyFactory.java#L31> <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/dependency-management/src/main/java/org/gradle/api/internal/notations/DependencyClassPathNotationConverter.java#L99>

yeah, I have tried to follow that trace or even trying to create it, but it uses private things

Basically in JVM projects, the dependencies scope is generated and  the block context is `DependencyHandlerScope`

meanwhile the block for Kotlin source sets is `KotlinDependencyHandler`, so I am unable to call `gradleTestKit` from there

it's extracted from within the Gradle distribution, it's not on maven central or the plugin portal

yeah, you can't use it from the KMP dependencies block, but it's JVM-only anyway

yep, but I was trying to unify setups and I was following the kmp approach

curiously `gradleKotlinDsl` can be used with no issues due to the current implementation:

```fun Project.gradleKotlinDsl(): Dependency =
    DefaultSelfResolvingDependency(
        OpaqueComponentIdentifier(DependencyFactory.ClassPathNotation.GRADLE_KOTLIN_DSL),
        project.fileCollectionOf(
            gradleKotlinDslOf(project),
            "gradleKotlinDsl"
        ) as FileCollectionInternal
    )```

Have you tried with `dependencies.gradleTestKit()`?

Nice one, thank you :slightly_smiling_face: