[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBAS-8543) Verify AS functionality on Windows

[David Bosschaert (JIRA)]

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David Bosschaert commented on JBAS-8543:
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Just to expand a little, the colon ':' is an invalid character in a Windows file path except as a drive separator. Java happily converts forward slashes to backslashes for you, so this:
  /C:/clones/bosschaert-jboss-as_211010/osgi/deployments/bundle1
is valid and would be treated on Windows as 
  C:\clones\bosschaert-jboss-as_211010\osgi\deployments\bundle1

But the following are not valid:
  /C:/temp/blah/C:/clones/bosschaert-jboss-as_211010/osgi/deployments/bundle1
  C:\temp\blah\C:\clones\bosschaert-jboss-as_211010\osgi\deployments\bundle1

So if the deploymentRoot is used somewhere as part of a path on disk we're clearly in trouble on Windows as it would contain a colon somewhere in the middle.

> Verify AS functionality on Windows
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBAS-8543
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8543
>             Project: JBoss Application Server
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>            Reporter: Thomas Diesler
>            Assignee: David Bosschaert
>
> SachaL reports build problems on AS7 master.
> Please post a link to the Hudson QA that shows the matrix of supported OS

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