On 22/05/2012, at 12:22 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Brett, I wrote the code today.
I saw that... but didn't you send this afterwards? I thought you were looking for a way to trim it back again to avoid extra maintenance/risk of os-specific bugs. > > 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 > -- 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
