The settings Plugin will cause frequent configuration cache misses

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While writing test cases I discovered that the settings plugin will cause will cause configuration cache misses. If you apply the settings plugin and compile the same module 2 times in a row you will get: Calculating task graph as configuration cache cannot be reused because directory '.' has changed. So because the Settings plugin just operates on Files instead of using valueSources doing about anything can cause a configuration cache miss, especially deleting or creating the build directory

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so the problem does not lie that much in the settings plugin generally but more in the "directory" functionality. Since directory list list all files including the build directory this functionality can be a bit problematic