Hi lords and ladies!
I try to get my head around the ticket MASSEMBLY-775.
It is related to MASSEMBLY-746 and MASSEMBLY-665.
The problem is basically that a reference to <dest>/somedirectory</dest> is
interpreted as absolute path on *nix and as relative path on Win*.
And sometimes we have code of the form
File destDir = new File(dest);
if (! destDir.isAbsolute()) {
destDir = new File(basedir destDir);
}
And thus we treat e.g. <dest>/src/test/my.txt</dest> as relative to
${project.basedir} on Windows but as an absolute path in OSX and Linux for
example. But Maven projects should by default be perfectly portable on
different operating systems.
It get's a bit more complicated when also taking mingw and cygwin into
consideration.
I wrote a tiny class and tested it on multiple systems.
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
java.lang.System.out.println("path: " + new
java.io.File(args[0]).getAbsolutePath());
}
}
Feeding /test as parameter gives the following values:
OSX: /test
Linux: /test
Windows CMD: c:\test
Windows mingw: c:\opt\GIT\test <- a bit unexpected tbh...
Windows Powershell: c\test
I don't have cygwin at hand. Anyone?
It looks like using / as detector for an absolute file *in addition* to
File#isAbsolute() would be the most porbable way to handle it?
At least if we otherwise concat it to our basedir like we did in
maven-assembly-plugin.
Wdyt?
LieGrue,
strub
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