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sbt doesn't like colons in project directory names #1038

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ritschwumm opened this issue Dec 12, 2013 · 2 comments
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sbt doesn't like colons in project directory names #1038

ritschwumm opened this issue Dec 12, 2013 · 2 comments

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@ritschwumm
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when the directory of a project contains a colon, sbt fails to start:

[info] Done updating.
[info] Compiling 1 Scala source to /home/<censored>/http4s:http4s/project/target/scala-2.10/sbt-0.13/classes...
/home/<censored>/http4s:http4s/build.sbt:1: error: not found: object Http4sDependencies
import Http4sDependencies._
       ^
sbt.compiler.EvalException: Type error in expression
    at sbt.compiler.Eval.checkError(Eval.scala:343)
    at sbt.compiler.Eval.compileAndLoad(Eval.scala:165)
    at sbt.compiler.Eval.evalCommon(Eval.scala:135)
    at sbt.compiler.Eval.evalDefinitions(Eval.scala:109)
    at sbt.EvaluateConfigurations$.evaluateDefinitions(EvaluateConfigurations.scala:125)
    at sbt.EvaluateConfigurations$.evaluateSbtFile(EvaluateConfigurations.scala:48)
    at sbt.Load$.sbt$Load$$loadSettingsFile$1(Load.scala:502)
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harrah commented Dec 14, 2013

At best I see sbt issuing a better error message. Colons are used for separating Java classpaths on unix.

@ritschwumm
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hm, good point. same problem with semicolons on windows, i guess.

@harrah harrah closed this as completed in ca4b22e Dec 18, 2013
harrah added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 21, 2014
@harrah @eed3si9n
Generate an error when making a path string from paths containing the…
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… separator. Fixes #1038.

This is an attempt to provide a decent error message in some cases.  However, paths that include
the Java path separator character are just fundamentally problematic and aren't always going to
be cleanly detected.
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