Fails to launch Windows batch script located in path containing blank

[mkarg]

Steps to reproduce:

• <executable>C:\FOO BAR\My.bat</executable> (Mind the blank between FOO and BAR)

Expected result:

• Executes cmd.exe /c "C:\FOO BAR\My.bat"

Actual result:

• Logs that it would execute cmd.exe /c "C:\FOO BAR\My.bat" but then fails with error message telling that C:\FOO is not found. (Mind the missing rest of the path)

Workaround:

• Strip path from <executable>
• Add path to <workingDirectory>

[TIBCOrkrajews]

Surrounding the contents with "" also works, so, for example <executable>"${my program}"</exectuable> also is a workaround.

That said, it's a bad look for Maven to leak OS-dependent problems to users.

[mkarg]

Maven's configuration parameters should always be OS-independent, just as Java's File API is.

[TIBCOrkrajews]

I’m sorry, the <executable>"${my.program}"</executable> workaround doesn’t work on Unix because the plugin interprets the double quotes literally (as it well should in all OSes).