[MNG-4713] ${basedir} variable makes portable builds overly difficult

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1
• Component/s: Design, Patterns & Best Practices
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gili
• Created: 17/Jun/10 23:58
• Updated: 02/Jul/14 08:44
• Resolved: 14/Jun/14 00:58

Description

Please reopen MNG-3198. I believe that Brett misunderstood what Jochen wrote. There is no simple workaround with the current Maven implementation. Jochen was saying that Maven should use unix-style slashes under Windows for the sake of portability and let users convert to Windows-style slashes themselves if they wish to use an external script.

Simple use-case: try passing a ${basedir}-relative path into the "java.library.path" property. It's impossible to do this portably under Maven's existing implementation.

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