On 22/05/2012, at 1:35 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> It went like this:
> 
> A few days ago, I started on this, originally thinking it could be
> done with URI.relativize. Discovered I was wrong. Then I found the SO
> post that you found, and grabbed some code it pointed to, and tried to
> clean it up, with poor initial success.
> 
> So, I sent out the email in case someone had a magic wand.
> 
> Having some time on my hands today and no wand having arrived, I
> thought through the problem more carefully, rewrote the code, and
> convinced myself that it would cover the plausible use cases. I'm just
> not too worried about someone coding some bizarre other-drive-letter
> pathname into a POM as the desired location for a dependency-reduced
> POM. Checked it all in, ant send out email fishing for testers.

OK... I just read dev@ before commits@ and got the order back to front. Just 
trying to help :)

I'm still wondering where the method I was thinking of is...

- Brett

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