Doesn't work with Gradle plugins block

[EchoEllet]

To migrate from legacy apply plugin to plugins block, the alternative of:

buildscript {
    repositories {
	mavenLocal()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.mini2Dx:gettext-gradle-plugin:1.7.1'
    }
}

project(":your-project") {
    apply plugin: "org.mini2Dx.gettext"
...

would be:

plugins {
    id("org.mini2Dx.gettext") version "1.11.0"
}

But it didn't work for some reason, any idea?

I asked on Slack and a developer called Björn Kautler (@Vampire on Slack) said:
it does not publish the marker artifacts that are necessary to translate from the Plugin ID to the actual code artifact.

The reason I'm interested in using the plugins block is not only for migrating to the new way of doing things but also for adding support to Gradle Kotlin DSL, you don't have to write it in Kotlin DSL (.KTS), only the publishing bug needs to be fixed, he also said Type-safe accessors are only generated for plugins you apply in the plugins { ... ] block

Thank you.

[hakanai]

Please publish Gradle plugins to the Gradle plugin portal. It is the proper repository for such things.

That is, if you think this plugin is any good. Otherwise, there are these other gettext plugins in the wild:

• name.kropp.kotlinx-gettext "Extract strings for i18n from Kotlin files in Gettext format"
• de.l11n.gettext.gradle-gettext-plugin "Automatically extract all your strings to localize them"
• com.github.vlsi.gettext "Configures gettext processing for Gradle"
• com.hulab.gradle.gettext-android "Gradle plugin to compile po files."
• net.oc_soft.msgfmt "A gradle plugin to generate message object for gettext."

[Vampire]

Where the plugin is published is not so relevant, only for discoverability. Relevant is only that the marker artifacts are published too. And this can be worked-around using a plugin resolution strategy in the settings script to mitigate the missing plugin marker artifacts.

[hakanai]

Yes indeed. I was hoping not to have to introduce such workarounds.