Issues after trying to update up to 1.4.3

[InsanusMokrassar]

Description

Today I have tried to update nmcp up to 1.4.3 and faced several issues one-after-another:

1. publishAllProjectsProbablyBreakingProjectIsolation is deprecated. It worked for half of last year and for now I do not understand the reason of its deprecation
2. Setting up of settings gradle plugin require to use explicit version in settings.gradle or do some additional moves to use something like alias. This lead to, at least, difficulties for those ones, who want to keep all dependencies in gradle/libs.versions.toml
3. Configuration in each module may be problematic due to amount of projects: even with template-oriented way in my projects it will be manual adding of nmcp plugin instead of one simple configuration with one plugin in root build.gradle (as it was before 1.4.0)

[InsanusMokrassar]

My suggestion is to think about fixes for these problems. I understand profit of current solutions, but I was impressed by simplicity of nmcp plugin configuration. So, I would like to keep this simplicity in future, if it is possible :)

[martinbonnin]

Hey, thanks for sharing this!

For 1., publishAllProjectsProbablyBreakingProjectIsolation is actually breaking isolated projects. It feels wrong to push users in that direction when Gradle wants us to enable isolated project (will speed up build times)

For 2. yea, I can feel the pain. I was expecting Gradle to pick up the default version catalog in settings.gradle[.kts] files but looks like it's not the case :(. I'll dig into this.

For 3. also yea, if you don't already have a convention plugin applied to all your modules, this is more cumbersome.

tldr; Fee free to keep using publishAllProjectsProbablyBreakingProjectIsolation(), there are no plans to remove it until project isolation becomes the default in Gradle, which is probably several months/years away. I'll update the deprecation message to be more explicit about this and report that to the Gradle team, see if we can improve the ergonomics there.

Edit: filed a Gradle issue there