I didn't want to give you all the context, because that complicates the
problem which I carefully worded in the initial email:
"I don't want to hardcode the version number of the remote project into
this plugin config, so I've used a property made available in a parent pom."
The fact that I
I’m honestly unclear on your precise scenario.
1. If you are expecting a dependency to have a pom with a variable in it, that
then you would specify before using it, then Maven doesn’t work that way. (And
if you think about it, it creates a chicken-egg problem.)
2. If you are expecting to use
