This issue is part of https://github.com/realm/realm-kotlin/issues/31 and is an attempt at figuring out exactly what we should name our artifacts.

Right now we having everything in the io.realm.kotlin group. Which is probably fine and sets it apart from io.realm which is our Java repos. Some other examples:

Google: https://maven.google.com/web/index.html, is a bit all over the place but e.g. androidx.<product> follows the same pattern.

Square: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.squareup, does the same thing with e.g. com.squareup.okhttp3 and com.squareup.okhttp4

Current artifacts

Flavors used are base and objectServer

// Base artifacts
io.realm:realm-android-library:10.0.0
io.realm:realm-android-kotlin-extensions:10.0.0

// ObjectServer artifacts
io.realm:realm-android-library-object-server:10.0.0
io.realm:realm-android-kotlin-extensions-object-server:10.0.0

// Shared artifacts
io.realm:realm-annotations:10.0.0
io.realm:realm-annotations-processor:10.0.0
io.realm:realm-gradle-plugin:10.0.0
io.realm:realm-transformer:10.0.0

// Main entry point for people is

io.realm:realm-gradle-plugin:10.0.0

and

apply plugin: realm-java

Proposed new artifacts

Proposed flavors: database and app. Proposal is to use app-library as the name for the current master where we don't have flavors yet, and then add the database-library package once we create the flavors.

// Base artifacts
io.realm.kotlin:database-library:1.0.0

// Realm App artifacts
io.realm.kotlin:app-library:1.0.0

// Shared artifacts
io.realm.kotlin:plugin-compiler:1.0.0
io.realm.kotlin:plugin-compiler-shaded:1.0.0
io.realm.kotlin:gradle-plugin:1.0.0

// Shared KMP artifacts
// I suspect we will end up with two variants for this
io.realm.kotlin:runtime-api:1.0.0

// Main entry point is

io.realm.kotlin:gradle-plugin:1.0.0

but it is a bit unclear exactly how we can support our multiple targets?

Should we have multiple plugins?

apply plugin: realm-kotlin-kmp
apply plugin: realm-kotlin-android

Or do we only want one with specific kmp settings? I.e. there is probably a use case where you have an KMP project, but only want Realm in the Android variant. Should this instead be solved through a single plugin and the a config closure:

apply plugin: realm-kotlin

realm {
	kmp {
		// Automatically true for all variants we can find
		android = true
		iOS = false
		jvm = false
	}
}

Alternative

Alternatively, we keep io.realm as the group and prefix most of the above artifacts with realm-kotlin-<x>. Not sure if/how that would make things easier to manage. On purpose, we try to keep most of the artifacts away from users eyes anyway.