Parent/modules relative file path compression
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Key: MNG-2671
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2671
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Inheritence and Interpolation
Affects Versions: 2.0.4
Environment: Windows XP
Reporter: Vincent Beretti
Priority: Minor
Sometimes a problem appears in M2 with parent and module structure due to
the OS limitation in filepath length.
For example Windows file path can not exceed 255 characters.
But in complex maven 2 structure of parent/modules we can encounter a
problem with that.
In Eclipse, one has to put children projects in a flat structure.
Example :
in my filesystem my projects are :
C:/
|------ parentProject/
|------ childprojectA/
|------ childProjectB/
But in maven the structure is as following :
parentProject
|------ childProjectA
|------ childProjectB
So in childProjectX poms, I have to references parent project like this :
<relativePath>../parentProject</relativePath> and the same for modules in
parent as <modules><module>../parentProject</module></modules>
On a very complex structure, I have a path longer than 255 but in fact i
could be compressed to remove ..
for example when maven deletes target dir, it does like this :
delete C:/parentProject/../childProjectA/target
instead it could do
delete C:/childProjectA.
This would reduce the path length in very complex structures.
See the post at :
http://www.nabble.com/Parent-modules-File-path-compression-tf2628075s177.html
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