[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize in advance for any animosity this post may generate. > > This is a subject that has come up time and time again on a number of > mailing lists, and frankly it's getting annoying. First, Maven is not a > Unix tool, not did it grow up in the "Unix World". It is a Java tool, and > has been since day one (as is its predecessor, Ant). This means that it > will be run on a number of different operating systems, not just UNIX. > > What does this mean for processing files and paths? > > 1) Files can have spaces in the filename > 2) The file seperation character depends on the underlying operating system > 3) The path seperation character depends on the underlying operating system > > I would consider any code which fails to take into consideration these > simple truths as defective. Forcing Windows users to mangle their > filenames in order to satisfy UNIX-centric assumptions is not the answer. > Fixing the code is. > While I do come from a "Unix World" (Linux, actually), and really dislike Windows, I whole-heartedly agree with you. Even more when you consider that Unix filenames _can_ contain spaces, and that "mangling the filenames" didn't work. > Thank you, > Ian > > It's better to be hated for who you are > than loved for who you are not > > Ian D. Stewart > Appl Dev Analyst-Advisory > DTS Distributed Server Services > JPMorganChase Global Technology Infrastructure > Phone: (614) 244-2564 > Pager: (888) 260-0078 > > > > "Andrew Kreps" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > il.com> To > "Maven Users List" > 08/14/2006 06:43 <users@maven.apache.org> > PM cc > > Subject > Please respond to Re: [m2] Configuring the scp > "Maven Users executable > List" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > he.org> > > > On 8/14/06, Daniel Serodio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Exit code 1 - 'c:\Program' is not recognized as a command, application >> or batch file. > Have you tried the age old trick of changing long filenames to their > short counterparts? C:\Program Files is usually also accessable by > using C:\progra~1, which avoids the space character problem you appear > to be having. > > Seeing as maven grew up in the Unix world, you may also want to try > escaping the spaces (\ ) or using forward slashes instead of back > slashes for the directories. >
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