mill for kotlin and module-info

[robstoll]

Hi,
I consider to switch from gradle to mill for Kotlin and wonder if it somehow better supports my setup. I have kotlin libraries where I want to provide a module-info.java. This works by now more or less okayish in gradle in the sense that I can put the module-info into src/java/main and it gets compiled (some checks apply, not always correct but better than nothing).

Yet, it has an awkward problem in conjunction when running a main function from intellij. Intellij uses -m but specifies only the output folder of the java classes via -cp and not the kotlin classes and hence fails. I can workaround it by putting the kotlin classes into the output folder of the java classes but that's somewhat messy.

As far as I understood, mill also uses different output folders per task, so I was wondering if I would encounter the same problem again.

Did anyone already setup a similar project structure?

[lihaoyi]

@robstoll you can use mill.kotlinlib.KotlinMavenModule to use the same foo/src/main/java/ folder structure as maven and gradle, but even in Mill's default project structure you can mix the kotlin and java sources in foo/src/ and it should juts work out of the box. It all gets compiled together into the same classes/ folder that intellij will then index