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+This module exists for the sole purpose of providing the classpath for the IDEA run configuration.
+This run configuration takes a plugin from the KotlinPlugin artifact instead of the project's 'out' directory, which makes it possible for our plugin to depend on other plugins such as JUnit plugin.
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