That was due to maven 1 incompetence in plugin management. It's caused untold headaches. Although it appears m2 has a whole new set of things it cant do with plugins, handling snapshot plugins allegedly works fine. Due to the problems with the m1 versioning I'd like to give m2 snapshot plugins a chance.
m2 is very different than m1... so many of the things we were forced to do in m1 to make it work for us are no longer valid.
There is no reason that we need to or want to continue doing things in a m1-style w/m2.
--jason
