Deprecate fully qualified pathnames in system path --------------------------------------------------
Key: MNG-4456 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4456 Project: Maven 2 Issue Type: Improvement Environment: Any. Reporter: Jim Showalter Priority: Minor You could output a deprecation warning whenever a fully qualified path is specified, but not warn if the path starts with a variable. For example, this would generate no warning: <dependency> <groupId>com.sun</groupId> <artifactId>tools</artifactId> <version>1.6.0</version> <scope>system</scope> <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath> </dependency> but this would: <dependency> <groupId>yuck</groupId> <artifactId>ugh</artifactId> <version>4.2.8</version> <scope>system</scope> <systemPath>C:/dumb/way/to/set/up/maven/dependency</systemPath> </dependency> That way at least users are warned when they're doing something dumb, and if they change to the variable-based form, they stand a fighting chance of having portable builds. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira