Publishing a settings plugin

[sgammon]

Expected Behavior

Some plugins, for example the Gradle Enterprise Plugin, accurately show on the Plugin Portal when they are settings-time plugins:

Current Behavior

It is unclear how other plugins can trigger this UI

Context

We are the authors of a settings-time plugin (the Buildless plugin), but our page shows regular installation instructions which can confuse users.

[ov7a]

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.

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There is no way to set this up from the user side right now. The enterprise plugin is the only plugin for which this is implemented (hardcoded, to be precise).

[sgammon]

@ov7a you don't think it's a bit unfair to plugin authors and users? hm :/ okay. Thank you in any case for your help

[ov7a]

@sgammon I understand how you feel, and I'm not happy about this situation too.

[sgammon]

@ov7a / cc @hansd

another day, another user is confused because Gradle Plugin Portal prefers its own plugins with capabilities not granted to others (in an ecosystem they control -- a sign of monopolistic behavior, I might add)