maven installation location misconfigured (at least in eclipse)

[hohwille]

Expected behavior

As a devonfw-ide user, I want a consistent project setup so that all works (including maven in Eclipse or Intellij)

Actual behavior

After default setup, my Eclipse configuration is broken as the maven installation points to a non-existing directory.

Steps to reproduce (bug) / Use Case of feature request (enhancement)

1. create new devonfw-ide
2. devon eclipse
3. Go to Preferences > Maven > Installations

Related/Dependent Issues

• 1085

Comments/Hints:

https://github.com/devonfw/ide-settings/blob/7710bfef774c548199bcfca3b6f010427c77bed6/eclipse/workspace/update/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.m2e.core.prefs#L10

IMHO we cannot easily repair what has already happened out there in the wild. We could change ${DEVON_IDE_HOME}/software/maven to ${MAVEN_HOME} instead of ${DEVON_IDE_HOME}/software/mvn but all forks of our settings would need to upstream merge this change or they are broken.

Should we add a temporary workaround to create a symlink maven pointing to mvn in a migration script or is there any other/better solution? Or is it even better that all projects need to get aware of the problem and "repair" their settings?

Affected version:

• devonfw-ide 2023.07.001-2023.07.003
• current devonfw-ide settings

[jan-vcapgemini]

Can be easily fixed in Eclipse. I've added a PR to ide-settings which should fix this issue for new installations too.