Add a lazy way to set publishing maven repository directory

[liutikas]

Expected Behavior

publishing {
    repositories {
        maven {
          someNewApi.set(layout.buildDirectory.dir("repos/releases"))
          ...

A way to set maven publishing directory in a lazy way so that this directory is not resolved at until the task to publish is run or input checked.

Current Behavior (optional)

Gradle publishing docs suggest to use:

publishing {
    repositories {
        maven {
            // change to point to your repo, e.g. http://my.org/repo
            url = uri(layout.buildDirectory.dir("repo"))
        }
    }
}

However, Project.uri causes the type to be resolved right away, thus if the buildDirectory value is changed after this code is executed, the value set is obsolete.

Context

Attempting to write publishing code for our libraries that is not sensitive to when the buildDirectory is changed.

[hfhbd]

Maybe duplicate of #22779?

[ov7a]

Thank you for your interest in Gradle!

This issue will be closed as a duplicate of

• Consider introducing a lazy API to set repository URL for PublishToRepository task #22779

Please add your use case and 👍 to that issue.

@hfhbd thanks for the hint!