I'm looking into running the tests in MonoDevelop (Mono 2.10.9) on a
Mac, debugging one failure at a time. The TestBackwardsCompability tests
fails when unzipping because the paths for the source zip files are
incorrectly calculated. It originates in Paths.AssemblyDirectory, where
it returns a rooted path on Windows ("C:\Users\sisve\..."), but a
relative path on Mac ("Users/sisve/...").
We could use the existing Path.Combine, and choose to copy to
input.xxx.zip files to the output directory. This would remove the need
for the Paths class completely [if I understand it correctly]. (It's
also used from LuceneTestCase to initialize a variable no-one uses.)
Old: System.String dirName =
Paths.CombinePath(Paths.ProjectRootDirectory, "test/core/index/index." +
oldNames[i]);
New: System.String dirName = Path.Combine("Index", "index." + oldNames[i]);
But this makes me wondering, why was the Paths class introduced at all?
// Simon
