configuring publication for artifactoryPublish task executes the closure

[ItamarBenjamin]

Hi
We have encountered an issue where we configure these blocks in our project:

publishing {
        publications {
            DefPublication(MavenPublication) {
                from components.java
            }
        }
}
artifactoryPublish {
     publications ('DefPublication')
}

from what we could understand the line publications ('DefPublication') causes the evaluation of the above block on configuration time, preventing other plugins from configuring the project and affecting the publication properties. In our specific example we have another plugin that configure the subprojects' version (the publication by default takes the version from the project configuration). Since artifactoryPublish block evaluates the publication closure, it prevents our plugin from configuring the version.