Provide consistent set of plugin IDs for Gradle Plugin project types

[rieske]

At the moment, in order to write a Gradle plugin, one of the following plugins needs to be applied:

• java-gradle-plugin in order to write a Gradle plugin in Java
• groovy-gradle-plugin - in order to write a Gradle plugin in Groovy DSL (precompiled script plugin)
• kotlin-dsl - in order to write a Gradle plugin in Kotlin DSL (precompiled script plugin)

In order to make the plugin names more consistent, the suggestion is to use the {language-the-plugin-is-written-in}-gradle-plugin naming convention in the plugin names.

We also want the existing plugins to keep working for backwards compatibility - as such, introduce two new plugins that would only apply one of the existing plugins:

• groovy-dsl-gradle-plugin would apply groovy-gradle-plugin internally
• kotlin-dsl-gradle-plugin would apply kotlin-dsl plugin internally

At the same time, we might want to deprecate the current plugins as we introduce their "aliases". With groovy-gradle-plugin, the deprecation should be straightforward as it is only meant for writing precompiled script plugins in Groovy DSL. We can not deprecate kotlin-dsl plugin as it is used not only for writing precompiled script plugins in Kotlin DSL - some investigation is needed here.

[jjohannes]

As part of this work, the external plugins kotlin-dsl-plugins should become part of the Gradle distribution and no longer be published independently to the portal.

While in general we want to move plugins out of the distribution, this is not the right place to start with it as this is in the very core of Gradle. It's not consistent at the moment.

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[jbartok]

Thank you for your interest in Gradle!

This feature request is in the backlog of the relevant team, but this area of Gradle is currently not a focus one, so it might take a while before it gets implemented.