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Gordon Pettey commented on MASSEMBLY-775: ----------------------------------------- I submitted a PR to completely remove these checks. The error messages are simply wrong. {{/}} is a valid path separator on Windows. {{:}} is a valid second character in a Linux filename. > Emit WARNING instead of ERROR > ----------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-775 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MASSEMBLY-775 > Project: Maven Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.5.5 > Reporter: Karl Heinz Marbaise > Priority: Minor > > I have currently a build which creates several tar/tar.gz/zip archives etc. > {code} > [INFO] Reading assembly descriptor: src/main/assembly/descriptor-inner-tar.xml > [INFO] Reading assembly descriptor: src/main/assembly/descriptor.xml > [INFO] Building tar: C:\...\xyz-X.y.z-SNAPSHOT-dist.tar > [ERROR] OS=Windows and the assembly descriptor contains a *nix-specific > root-relative-reference (starting with slash) / > [ERROR] OS=Windows and the assembly descriptor contains a *nix-specific > root-relative-reference (starting with slash) / > {code} > In my opinion the message could be a WARNING instead of an error ? WDYT ? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)