Absolute and relative path
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Key: IVY-387
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-387
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.4.1
Reporter: Gilles Scokart
There are a few of issues in Jira concerning absolute and relative path.
Currently all the path are resolved relatively to the execution.
The different issues are :
- includes in the ivyconf files (IVY-372)
- properties in the ivyconf files (IVY-89)
- include configurations in the ivy files (IVY-347) In all case, the path
should be resolved relatively to the including file, and not relatively to the
current execution task.
There is also at least an other issue concerning the path resulutiion in ant
task parameter (IVY-232).
I think all those problems should be fixed together in order to keep ivy more
consistent. However, there is a backward compatibility issue: some projects
(for which it is required to launch the build from the base directory) rely on
the fact that ivy use path relative to the current execution directory. And if
they reference files that are not in the base directory, the change will break
their build.
The first project in that case is ivy itself! Try 'ant -f ivy/build.xml test'
and you will see plenty of test failing.
Comment from Xavier on the mailing list :
What could be done is have a single setting somewhere saying if relative paths
resolution should be done in backward compatible mode, or new mode. The default
could even be new mode, if it's clearly documented.
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