Hi,
while working on IVY-601, I was wondering what the value of the
ivy.settings.dir variable should be.
The problem is that the value of this ivy.settings.dir variable depends on how
the settings are loaded.
For instance:
Ivy ivy = new Ivy();
ivy.configure(new File("C:/test/ivysettings.xml"));
will set the value of the ivy.settings.dir to "C:/test".
However, if you configure Ivy like this:
Ivy ivy = new Ivy();
ivy.configure(new File("C:/test/ivysettings.xml").toURL());
you'll end up with an ivy.settings.dir variable with value "file:C:/test"
This makes a big difference in the way you can use the ivy.settings.dir
variable!
For instance, a lot of the Ivy junit tests will fail if we configure Ivy with
the URL instead of the File.
Another example, consider the following ivysettings.xml file:
<ivysettings>
<include url="${ivy.settings.dir}/ivy-shared-resolver.xml"/>
</ivysettings>
This will only work if you configure Ivy with an URL. If you configure Ivy with
a File, it won't work anymore, unless you use the "file" attribute to include
the other settings file, or add "file:" befoire the ivy.settings.dir variable.
I think the same problem is there when you include another settings file (like
the example above). The value of the ivy.settings.dir variable will be
different if you include the settings file with the "url" attribute or with the
"file" attribute.
We should have a mechanism where you don't have to care about the way the
settings file was loaded and the ivy.settings.dir should be the same in both
situations. The question is: what value should it have?
regards,
Maarten
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