sbt-tpolecat vs sbt-typelevel-settings

[BennyMcBenBen]

Hello. Love this plugin. I discovered sbt-typelevel-settings also exists and I am confused. Will this plugin continue to be developed or is sbt-typelevel-settings going to replace this? They work a bit differently so I am curious.

[armanbilge]

Good question! Currently the plan is for both to be developed; sbt-typelevel-settings is not intended as a replacement by any means.

They work a bit differently

That's currently the case, although they will hopefully be more similar in the next version of sbt-typelevel/sbt-tpolecat thanks to the scalac-options library.
https://github.com/typelevel/scalac-options

With that said, the main difference is that sbt-typelevel-settings adds some additional configuration besides scalacOptions, for example:

• the kind-projector and better-monadic-for compiler plugins
• scaladoc configuration
• additional source directories e.g. scala-2.12-, scala-2.13+
• JDK release version and API mappings
• javacOptions

Many of these features are more useful for (OSS) library development, rather than applications, since that is the primary user base of sbt-typelevel.

[BennyMcBenBen]

Thanks! This clears things up

[DavidGregory084]

Great question - @armanbilge and I have been coordinating on how to merge the two plugins. At the moment the plan is to move both plugins to use a shared dependency which implements the core logic of this plugin - see #107.

[DavidGregory084]

Haha Arman you are so speedy. What @armanbilge said basically 😆