Deprecate fully qualified pathnames in system path
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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.
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