sebersole/gradle-upload-auth-plugin — comment on commit ac430fb15042b849cc665c97f5f54dde6bf45685
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By sebersole:

That is the plan. http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/plugins_and_classloader_isolation

Up to Gradle team atm. If someone (ahem) we to be able to create a pull request to integrate this work into the Maven plugin, I am sure it would get integrated much quicker ;)