Re: [deegree-devel] deegree-maven-plugin; Patch for creating symlinks (junction points) on Windows

[Andreas S. <sc...@la...>]

Reichhelm Stephan wrote:

Hi,

> while building deegree 3.1 on windows I had made a patch for the EclipseProjectLinker 
> to enable junction point (which are the equivalent to unix symbolic links) (see below).
> 
> The required junction.exe is freely available at Microsoft technet [1] for Win XP / 2k3 and newer.
> 
> I have stop using this solution, because junctions points have some disadvantages and I managed to use
> a tree structure checked out from trunk/tag whit eclipse indigo (for developing) and mvn on console (for building).
> 
> But this may be usable for other windows users ... 
> 
> mvn -Dwtpversion=2.0 
>  -Declipse.formatter=deegree 
>  -Declipse.workspace=C:\path\to\deegree3\checkout 
>  -Declipse.junction=C:\path\to\junction.exe
>  eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse
> org.deegree:deegree-maven-plugin:1.6-SNAPSHOT:create-links

great, thanks for the patch! I've just applied it and released version
1.6 of the plugin.

Best regards, Andreas
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