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These properties all show a leading file separator when displayed in the Ant runtime properties pref page. Possibly just a display issue but not likely to be what people expect in some cases.
This leading separator is the format being returned from URL#getPath. This doesn't seem to be an issue for the way we are using these properties in our ant scripts, but if someone else was to pass these properties to say an exec task then there might be problems.
Andrew could you please confirm for rc4 that this does not cause problems on linux platforms. If so then I suggest that we leave it the way it is.
After some tests, this does not cause problems on Linux at all. On Windows, the property is understood by ant. The only problem is on windows when the property is passed to something that doesn't understand it, like exec: <exec executable="type" > <arg value="${eclipse.pdebuild.scripts}/build.xml" /> </exec> In this case even removing the leading separator would not be good enough since windows does not like the forward slashes.
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Currently we are not actively enhancing PDE build anymore. Therefore, I close this bug as WONTFIX. Please reopen, if you plan to provide a fix.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
