Gradle Property's

[xenoterracide]

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in order to be configuration cache compatible you'd have to move to Property's and Provider, gradle 9 is working to migrate their things to Property's across the board. Would be nice to see that here. Especially on outputDir This could be better written

  outputDir(project.layout.buildDirectory.dir("generated").map { it.asFile }.get())

as

  outputDir(project.layout.buildDirectory.dir("generated"))

which would have to change the internal value to be a Property (I think it's DirectoryProperty...)

which could also be called as

outputDir.set(project.layout.buildDirectory.dir("generated"))

I assume you'd keep the method API in a way that allowed either the Provider or a File, but the underlying fields would have to change.