RE: POM Build Resources and Path Problems

[Brett Porter <bp...@f2network.com.au>]

Never had a problem using forward slashes on windows. This sounds unrelated.

What does your <resources/> section look like? What version of maven?

- Brett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Timm [mailto:stimm@proclarity.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 10:13 AM
> To: dev@maven.apache.org
> Subject: POM Build Resources and Path Problems
> 
> 
> I was having some bizarre issues where the jar plugin was 
> grabbing everything in my project folder as a resource, and I 
> finally tracked it down to a problem with the '/' vs. the '\' 
> in a directory.  By default, maven.build.dir is set to 
> something like the following: 
> C:\mySource\currentDirectory/target.  Notice how every part 
> of the path has a '\' except the last part.  When the jar 
> plugin called maven:copy-resources, it apparently truncated 
> off the '/target' portion at some point and left it at my 
> base directory...not what I wanted.  Up until this point, I 
> had generally been specifying all of my paths with forward 
> slashes whenever I could, but now I'm a bit concerned that 
> there might be more issues like this.  Is it okay for me to 
> specify paths with forward slashes (and this is just a bug), 
> or I should I try and avoid mixing the two up?  I haven't put 
> the issue in JIRA, yet...figured I'd wait until they finish 
> (or stop) the move.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Sean T.
>