[jira] Commented: (RIVER-203) ClassDep should always recognize '/' as a valid file separator character, regardless of OS

["Holger Hoffstätte (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Holger Hoffstätte commented on RIVER-203:
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I'm trying to better understand the actual problems here (as I have never used ClassDep :)
Is the following list of sub-problems correct?

1) currently ClassDep requires the platform-native form as input argument, but should be able to handle paths with either '\\' and '/'.

2) the output of the -files parameter is platform-specific (as consequence of using File.separator everywhere) - I just reproduced this.

After a bit of poking and trying to understand the code I could solve #2 with a one-line fix. For #1 I suggest unconditionally sanitizing the input arguments and always using '/' internally, which would go hand in hand with the fix for #2.

If this is indeed all there is to this bug then I'm willing to look into this.


> ClassDep should always recognize '/' as a valid file separator character, regardless of OS
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RIVER-203
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-203
>             Project: River
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: com_sun_jini_tool
>            Reporter: Jools Enticknap
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When specifying directories in Windows, ClassDep requires that such directories contain '\' as the file separator character.  
> Java, on the other hand, also recognizes '/' as a file separator character in Windows.  
> Changing ClassDep to also recognize '/' as a file separator character in Windows would lessen the number of changes required to port scripts between OSes.

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