On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
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> On 22/05/2012, at 1:35 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
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>>> On 22/05/2012, at 12:22 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>> 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 :)

Well, of course, since you are upside down. I'm most grateful for your
attention here, really I am.

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

Me too.


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