Can't use project extra properties in plugin block

Question

I have a multi-project build, and more often than not I find myself locking versions for artifacts across the board. So in my root project I define something like:

Answer 1

Apparently this has become possible recently, if it wasn't possible in the past. (Almost) from the docs:

gradle.properties:

helloPluginVersion=1.0.0

settings.gradle.kts:

pluginManagement {
  val helloPluginVersion: String by settings
  plugins {
    id("com.example.hello") version helloPluginVersion
  }
}

And now the docs say that build.gradle.kts should be empty but my testing shows that you still need this in build.gradle.kts:

plugins {
  id("com.example.hello")
}

The version is now determined by settings.gradle.kts and hence by gradle.properties which is what we want...