[jira] Closed: (MNG-4464) Improve handling of relative paths with backslashes

["Benjamin Bentmann (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4464?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Benjamin Bentmann closed MNG-4464.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 3.0-alpha-7
         Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann

Revised separator handling in [r904931|http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=904931].

I opted to accept both forward and backslash as file separators. For one, this matches Ant's behavior. And for second because issueing a warning from all relevant code spots isn't feasible.

> Improve handling of relative paths with backslashes
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-4464
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4464
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: POM
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.1, 3.0-alpha-4
>         Environment: Unix, Mac
>            Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
>            Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.0-alpha-7
>
>
> Consider this snippet:
> {code:xml}
> <parent>
>   <relativePath>..\pom.xml</relativePath>
> </parent>
> {code}
> Note in particular the backslash used in the path. While this path will be properly resolved on a Windows box, it will fail to resolve the local parent on a Unix/Mac box (as the backslash is not a separator but escape character here). This applies to other paths in the POM as well.
> For platform-independent behavior, we should either encourage the user to use forward slashes (by means of validation warnings/errors) or have Maven convert the paths internally.

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