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Brett Porter updated MNG-3951:
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    Fix Version/s: 2.0.x

> Hide drive-relative paths from plugins
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>                 Key: MNG-3951
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3951
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Plugins and Lifecycle
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.9, 2.1.0-M1
>         Environment: Windows
>            Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.0.x
>
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> Take this nice path: /tmp (note the leading slash). This is an absolute path 
> on Unix derivates but a drive-relative path on a Windows box. Drive-relative 
> paths are resolved by prepending the drive of the current directory, not the 
> entire current directory.
> This notation of a drive-relative path is not well-known, even among Windows 
> users, and in particular not easy going for cross-platform Java tools. A Java 
> developer usually assumes that a path is either (directory-)relative or 
> absolute.
> To avoid unnecessary complications as seen on our own multi-OS CI grid (cf. 
> dev@ thread [CI Grid, Windows and 
> Paths|http://www.nabble.com/CI-Grid%2C-Windows-and-Paths-to21153292.html]) 
> and as reported by users (e.g. MECLIPSE-404), the core should not only align 
> directory-relative paths but also resolve drive-relative paths.

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