On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Mark Hobson wrote:
> Hi Kenney,
>
> On 04/11/05, Kenney Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I didn't realize the exact difference. I think I added the 'canonical'
> > versions, and the 'absolute' versions were implicit. They should
> > ofcourse be the same.
> >
> > Is this correct:
> >
> >
> > /path/a/b/
> >
> > /path/c symlinked to /path/a/b/
> >
> > - absolute -> just makes a path absolute, preserving symlinks:
> >
> > cwd = /path/c; absolute('target/') -> /path/c/target/
> >
> > - canonical:
> >
> > cwd = /path/c; canonical('target/') -> /path/a/b/target/
> >
> > ?
>
> Yep, that's right. On Windows the canoncial path also converts the
> drive letter to uppercase, which is the root cause of the test
> failures.
>
> > I don't know which version would be the correct one. I think maven2
> > internally uses Absolute paths to resolve $basedir, so I guess the eclipse
> > plugin should use that too.
>
> Moving to one or the other would fix things, so for the eclipse plugin
> we should really use whatever eclipse itself uses. A quick test shows
> that eclipse creates canoncial paths - shall we move to that instead?
+1, but I think we also need to keep in mind to convert any paths that
maven2 itself offers (if they're absolute).
-- Kenney
>
> Mark
>
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