Gradle 2.14-rc-2 still exhibits backwards compatibility issues with plugins

[Danny_Thomas1 (Danny Thomas)]

Yep, all good here. Seeing this in one of our tests now:

Gradle 2.14-rc-3 throws MissingPropertyException for property set that worked previously

Appears to be another regression related to property access. This test fails, but worked in previous releases. Note that if I manually inline the setupProject method, the issue clears up: import org.gradle.api.Project import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPlugin import org.gradle.testfixtures.ProjectBuilder import spock.lang.Specification class MissingPropertySpec extends Specification { static String mavenUrl Project project def setup() { mavenUrl = "http://someurl" …