overrideFile is deprecated

[bogdanb]

I’m not sure I understand everything correctly, but it seems to me that overrideFile should not have been deprecated, because the newer overrideUrl property cannot be used to reproduce the previous behavior.

overrideUrl only allows URLs, which are absolute, thus AFAIK cannot be used to point to a file inside the repository. (I guess on Linux it might be possible, using stuff like ${project.source.directory} to assemble a file: URL, but on Windows that will return some C:\path\with\drive\letter, which can’t do the same thing.

Using overrideFile, you can just put the override file anywhere inside the repository. With overrideUrl, you need to pick one of:

• put the file on a web server, which requires a server and means no build is possible without a network connection
• use some hard-coded file: URL, which means you can’t just get the repo and build, you need to place the in a particular path
• use the default path, which is inconvenient

[slawekjaranowski]

similar to ##411

[maxl2287]

Any solution on that?