Absolute path in config/plugins.xml

[r-pf]

Dev Effort

1D

Description

The result of the installation of e.g. verapdf-pdfbox-1.10.6-installer.zip is in principle like an unzipped archive-file. (no modification in e.g. an registry is performed, all files are located within a single sub-directory).

Because of e. g. reorganization of departments we are forced to reorganize the location of some similar programs within our file-system.

Before moving the installation of veraPDF-GUI from one location to an other I checked the content of some files of the installations.
In the file config/plugins.xml I found that value of element pluginJar is an absolute path.

Is it possible to change this value in future releases to a relative path, which is relative to the installation directory (the System-Property app.home set in verapdf-gui.bat reflects this directory)?

This modification allows to move the installation from one directory to an other.
(Moving is faster than re-installation)

[carlwilson]

Closed by veraPDF/veraPDF-plugins#22 and #1023 combined. Added relative path support and improved warnings when things go wrong.