Lucee datasources created in Application.cfc not available in the psuedo-constructor

Application.cfc

component {
    // this datasource needs to be accessible
    this.datasources["coolblog"] = {
        class = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver",
        connectionString = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/coolblog?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true",
        username = "root",
        password = "coolblog"
    };

    // uncomment this line to make it pass
    // cfapplication( datasources = this.datasources );

    // this call will fail with no datasource being found
    cfdbinfo( type="Version", datasource="coolblog", name="info" );
    writeDump( var = info, top = 2, abort = true );
}

index.cfm

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