What is the best / sound approach to make a build plugin, not a kotlin dsl one, (from buildSrc or included-build) type-safely configure an optional (projects may apply it or not) external (non gradle) plugin ? Case at hand, I have a “binary” plugin implemented in buildSrc/ (it cannot be moved into …

App you said before the questions was analyzed correctly. The proper way is to have implementation dependency and remove the version from where you apply it. The version is only needed to add the plugin to the classpath, but the having an implementation dependency in buildSrc you added it already b…

Indeed. I think some better docs are overdue in this matter.

Best approach for a build plugin to configure another non gradle plugin

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bric3 (Brice Dutheil) July 22, 2026, 5:35pm 2

By the way, I forgot to link it, but this discussion seems related Add configuration when plugin is applied, handling different plugin versions - #10 by maxnitze

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Best approach for a build plugin to configure another non gradle plugin

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