Is 'plugin marketplace' a thing?

[ice1000]

I'm thinking about creating an ANTLR4 plugin (or is it available already?) and I'm not sure how to do it. I have a project built with Gradle and I'm fed up with it🤣

[lefou]

Welcome to the mill ecosystem!

Mill already has some plugins. Some are developed as separate projects and some are located in the mill repository under contrib.

See https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/mill/mill/Thirdparty_Modules.html and https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/mill/mill/Contrib_Modules.html.

Each way has it's own pros and cons. Have a look at some of these, and you get an idea, what is needed to write your own pluginprojects.

But to get started, it isn't even needed to create a dedicated project. The easiest way to get started is to just write your own module (e.g. AntlrModule) and place it next to your build.sc (e.g. AntlrModule.sc), and include it via import $ivy.AntlrModule.

Once you are sattisfied with your module and want to share it, create a dedicated project, copy the AntlrModule.sc as AntlrModule.scala into the source tree and add the mill dependencies to the project. Please make sure to use ivyCompileDeps for any mill dependencies, though.