[MNG-4464] Improve handling of relative paths with backslashes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1, 3.0-alpha-4
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-alpha-7
• Component/s: POM
• Environment: Unix, Mac
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
• Created: 23/Nov/09 11:54
• Updated: 07/Mar/11 10:56
• Resolved: 30/Jan/10 18:30

Description

Consider this snippet:

<parent>
  <relativePath>..\pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>

Note in particular the backslash used in the path. While this path will be properly resolved on a Windows box, it will fail to resolve the local parent on a Unix/Mac box (as the backslash is not a separator but escape character here). This applies to other paths in the POM as well.

For platform-independent behavior, we should either encourage the user to use forward slashes (by means of validation warnings/errors) or have Maven convert the paths internally.

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-5035 \ -> / on Unix for java.io.File-typed mojo param