:-) [Trying...too...resist...the...urge...to...say...use...eclipse...] But seriously, a Zip file has "directory" entries in it. They can be a File entry, that points to a file's contents, or a Directory entry.
If the (empty) directory entries are not there, then most archive tools simply go ahead and create the path and then the file anyway. Having the Directory entries there is not unique to maven's archiver. In short, IntelliJ need to fix their code. They should be able to handle that situation. -Chris On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>wrote: > I had trouble working on the javadoc plugin in IntelliJ, and this > response came back from their support person. > > What's special about this artifact? Should I see if making a new > release will fix it? > > > Quote starts here: > > This issue occurs because > > ...\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\maven-toolchain\1.0\maven-toolchain-1.0.jar > file has some weird archive format that IDEA cannot read: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2752840/screens/snap2142-1347566987.png . > > If you look inside this jar with any external unpacker, you'll find > that it contains empty file entries that match directories. > So it's some Maven packaging issue that affects IDEA ability to > properly read this jar. > > I don't think that we'll want to invest resources into fixing this > issue, it should be rather fixed in the Maven repository. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
