Make arbitrary artifacts from one subproject available in another

[Chris_Dore (Chris Doré)]

In a thread I had created when working on the same type of subproject artifact behaviour, there’s some additional discussion on task inputs and dependencies which you may or may not find useful/educational.

Artifact builtBy task is not called when resolving a configuration

Given the following, I expected the task buildIt to run as a result of running the useIt task, since the useIt task causes the myConfig configuration to be resolved. Am I doing something wrong or otherwise not understanding something? Thanks, Chris allprojects { configurations { myConfig } } project( ':subproject' ) { ext.theFile = file( 'some.file' ) task buildIt << { println 'building' theFile.withWriter { it.println 'test' } } artifacts { …