My gut is that the configuration in settings.xml should always be an absolute path. The way this user (in MECLIPSE-404) is using the configuration is simply an anti-pattern.
Wayne On 3/18/08, Benjamin Bentmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > the recent release of maven-eclipse-plugin:2.5 brought up > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-404 > which is caused by (windows) users specifying drive-relative paths to their > local repos. > > Further progress on this issue would require some clarification: > Is Maven supposed to support relative paths to the local repository or is > the corresponding configuration in the settings.xml always expected to be an > absolute path? In the later case, I would create an issue to make Maven > actually validate the absoluteness of the path to save plugins from > unexpected relative-path effects. > > > Benjamin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
