Publishing a KMP library commits you to every target you listed
Dropping a target in a minor release breaks consumers at resolution time.
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Seven modules, seven copies of the same Gradle block
Copy-pasted build config drifts silently per module. A convention plugin makes the shared part shared.
A dependency that resolves in commonMain and only exists on Android
Gradle metadata decides which variant each target gets. A library with no native artifact fails at link, not at resolution.
KSP runs once per target, and your generated code can disagree with itself
A processor sees one compilation at a time. Generating into commonMain is a race you win by accident.
A version catalog is a contract, and a transitive bump breaks it quietly
Declared versions are requests, not guarantees. Resolution picks the highest.
One Gradle build, five outputs, and the cache that only helps three
Android and JVM targets cache well. Native link steps mostly do not, and that asymmetry is where your CI time goes.
A task that captures Project is a bug, not a gap
Calling it a configuration cache incompatibility frames a real defect as a missing feature. The task captures a live object where it should capture a value.
Killing the Gradle daemon costs you thirty minutes
Killing a build daemon discards the configuration cache, build cache, file watching and JIT state at once. Forty seconds becomes half an hour.