Brett, I wrote the code today. On May 21, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204784/how-to-construct-a-relative-path-in-java-from-two-absolute-paths-or-urls > http://plexus.codehaus.org/plexus-utils/apidocs/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtils.html#resolveFile(java.io.File, > java.lang.String) > > I was sure there was one around called "relativize", but I can't find it. > Maybe was thinking of the URI one. I remember dealing with the extensive > Windows edge cases and so on - probably in Archiva or Wagon/Release/SCM. Your > best bet might be to use commons-io's normalize on both paths and then chop > the common path-delimited substring. > > I don't suppose you can avoid resolving it though, and just prepend "../" as > long as you know the depth from the original project, and know that the > previous value was already relative? Don't forget to cover the Maven 3 case > where <relativePath></relativePath> turns off the default. > > Cheers, > Brett > > On 22/05/2012, at 6:42 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> MSHADE-115 reports the unpleasant consequences of putting the >> dependency-reduced-pom into the basedir instead of target. >> >> I'm working on a fix. The fix needs a function that can relativize one >> pathname to another. I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be one >> of those lying about ... is there one in Plexus that I've perhaps >> missed? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > -- > Brett Porter > br...@apache.org > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter > http://twitter.com/brettporter > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
