Allow option to generate .classpath paths relative to user.home, rather than absolute
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Description
Currently, sbteclipse generates absolute pathnames into the ivy repository. This is the main reason why my .classpath files are not portable across machines. I would like a way to generate paths relative to my user.home location, since the default ivy2 repo is relative to that.
sbt-idea currently does this, eg:
root url="jar://$USER_HOME$/.ivy2/cache/junit/junit/jars/junit-4.7.jar!/"
Some evidence that this is an issue for other people also:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12983203/use-userprofile-in-eclipse-classpath-windows
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14663211/change-name-and-or-path-of-classpath-file-in-eclipse?rq=1
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Research direction
Start by tracing sbteclipse's .classpath generation and how it resolves paths in the ivy repository, then compare the user.home-relative handling shown for sbt-idea. Done means an option can generate portable .classpath entries relative to user.home while preserving the existing absolute-path behavior.
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- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100