[jira] Closed: (MASSEMBLY-136) outputDirectory to support absolute paths

["John Casey (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-136?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Casey closed MASSEMBLY-136.
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         Assignee: John Casey
       Resolution: Won't Fix
    Fix Version/s: 2.2-beta-2

This use case isn't really a part of the assembly plugin's goals. Maybe you'd be better off with a custom plugin to copy files from dependencies, etc. into your tests...

Actually, such a plugin might be really useful. I'm not sure whether the maven-remote-resources-plugin could be made to accomplish this (dependencies would be remote resources for your tests, after all), but something like that would be a nice addition to the mojo.codehaus.org suite of plugins, I'd imagine.

> outputDirectory to support absolute paths
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>
>                 Key: MASSEMBLY-136
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-136
>             Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.1
>         Environment: Linux
>            Reporter: Kalle Korhonen
>            Assignee: John Casey
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.2-beta-2
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> Can you please make the assembly parameter "outputDirectory" support absolute paths, just like "directory" in fileSets. Currently all paths are relative to the root directory of the assembly, whether or not you specify the path separator in the beginning or not.  I see no reason why it should only support relative paths.
> I'm using assembly:directory to deploy some resources for my unit/integration tests that are normally available on a production environment. I realize I'm using the plugin "the wrong way", but the directory goal and format isn't suitable for deploying to the repository anyways.
> Also, either I don't know how to use appendAssemblyId correctly or it doesn't work for directory format.

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