I tried the following, and it is working: <localRepository>${env.HOME}/somewhereelse/repository</localRepository>
This is on Linux, but it should be easy to find something which is also working on Windows and OsX. LieGrü, strub --- Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > 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] > > Machen Sie Yahoo! zu Ihrer Startseite. Los geht's: http://de.yahoo.com/set --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]