[jira] Commented: (IVY-387) Absolute and relative path

["Gilles Scokart (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gilles Scokart commented on IVY-387:
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My point of view is :
- ivysettings include file should be relative to ivysettings file.  As already said, that's more natural.
- repositoryCacheDir should only allow absolute directories.  It is simpler to implement, and it is the most intuitive aproach for the user. 
- Same for the resolvers patterns.  Only absolute path should be allowed.  The reason here is that this is pointing to a completely different beast than the settings file, and should be independant of the script you are running.

 



> Absolute and relative path
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: IVY-387
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-387
>             Project: Ivy
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.1
>            Reporter: Gilles Scokart
>            Assignee: Gilles Scokart
>             Fix For: 2.0-RC1
>
>
> There are a few of issues in Jira concerning absolute and relative path.  Currently all the path are resolved relatively to the execution.
> The different issues are :
> - includes in the ivyconf files (IVY-372)
> - properties in the ivyconf files (IVY-89)
> - include configurations in the ivy files (IVY-347) In all case, the path should be resolved relatively to the including file, and not relatively to the current execution task.
> There is also at least an other issue concerning the path resulutiion in ant task parameter (IVY-232).
> I think all those problems should be fixed together in order to keep ivy more consistent.  However, there is a backward compatibility issue: some projects (for which it is required to launch the build from the base directory) rely on the fact that ivy use path relative to the current execution directory.  And if they reference files that are not in the base directory, the change will break their build.
> The first project in that case is ivy itself! Try 'ant -f ivy/build.xml test' and you will see plenty of test failing.
> Comment from Xavier on the mailing list :
> What could be done is have a single setting somewhere saying if relative paths resolution should be done in backward compatible mode, or new mode. The default could even be new mode, if it's clearly documented.

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