[MNG-3951] Hide drive-relative paths from plugins

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.9, 2.1.0-M1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.11, 2.1.0, 3.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: Plugins and Lifecycle
• Environment: Windows
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
• Created: 02/Jan/09 11:08
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 23:47
• Resolved: 30/Jan/09 15:59

Description

Take this nice path: /tmp (note the leading slash). This is an absolute path on Unix derivates but a drive-relative path on a Windows box. Drive-relative paths are resolved by prepending the drive of the current directory, not the entire current directory.

This notation of a drive-relative path is not well-known, even among Windows users, and in particular not easy going for cross-platform Java tools. A Java developer usually assumes that a path is either (directory-)relative or absolute.

To avoid unnecessary complications as seen on our own multi-OS CI grid (cf. dev@ thread CI Grid, Windows and Paths) and as reported by users (e.g. MECLIPSE-404), the core should not only align directory-relative paths but also resolve drive-relative paths.

Issue Links

• relates to: MECLIPSE-404 Duplicated local repository path in the generated .classpath file