because of the shadow copy feature in nunit.
simply using
Path.Combine("Index", "index." + oldNames[i]);
won't work when the test assemblies are located in funky places.
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Simon Svensson <si...@devhost.se> wrote:
> I'm looking into running the tests in MonoDevelop (Mono 2.10.9) on a Mac,
> debugging one failure at a time. The TestBackwardsCompability tests fails
> when unzipping because the paths for the source zip files are incorrectly
> calculated. It originates in Paths.AssemblyDirectory, where it returns a
> rooted path on Windows ("C:\Users\sisve\..."), but a relative path on Mac
> ("Users/sisve/...").
>
> We could use the existing Path.Combine, and choose to copy to
> input.xxx.zip files to the output directory. This would remove the need
> for the Paths class completely [if I understand it correctly]. (It's also
> used from LuceneTestCase to initialize a variable no-one uses.)
>
> Old: System.String dirName = Paths.CombinePath(Paths.**ProjectRootDirectory,
> "test/core/index/index." + oldNames[i]);
> New: System.String dirName = Path.Combine("Index", "index." + oldNames[i]);
>
> But this makes me wondering, why was the Paths class introduced at all?
>
> // Simon
>
