使用 Kotlin MPP 插件时，简单集依赖项和源集依赖项之间有什么区别？

Question

I'm using the Kotlin MPP plugin (with .kts support) and while I've been reading some code I came upon build.gradle.kts files like this:

kotlin {
    sourceSets {
        commonMain {
            dependencies {
                api(kotlinxCollectionsImmutable)
            }
        }
    }

    dependencies {
        with(Libs) {
            commonMainApi(kotlinStdLibCommon)
            commonMainApi(kotlinxCoroutinesCommon)
        }
    }
}

What is the difference between declaring an api dependency within a sourceSet compared to declaring a commonMainApi dependency? Is there any?

Answer 1

No difference. The commonMainApi is just an alternative way of doing the same, and doesn't look to be recommended any more. Link - https://kotlinlang.ru/docs/reference/building-mpp-with-gradle.html

Альтернативным способом указания зависимостей является использование встроенного DSL Gradle на верхнем уровне с именами конфигурации, следующими за шаблоном : [translation: Alternatively, dependencies can be declared by specifying configuration names at the top level using the built-in Gradle DSL]

dependencies {
    commonMainApi 'com.example:foo-common:1.0'
    jvm6MainApi 'com.example:foo-jvm6:1.0'
}

Interestingly, this document is described as a translation of https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/building-mpp-with-gradle.html where this paragraph (about the alternative syntax) is completely missing, so one can only deduce that the English version has been updated and the alternative syntax removed as either not recommended or obsolete at this point.