Unknown globbing input

[giacomociti]

while migrating to FAKE 5 I got this error message:

 (Unknown globbing input '\**\bin\Debug\*.Tests.dll', try to use a relative path and report an issue!)

Following the message I solved the issue (using the relative path .\**\bin\Debug\*.Tests.dll) and now I'm reporting it:)

Thanks

[matthid]

So this was working before and behaving like your relative path, correct?

[giacomociti]

yes, with FAKE 4.64.13 it was behaving like a relative path even if the starting dot was missing.
Also notice that the original expression was

 !! "/**/bin/Debug/*.Tests.dll"

so in the error message the slashes are reversed (of course I'm running on Windows 10)

[matthid]

Ok I guess the error message and behavior is reasonable. We should change the message in that particular situation (where we detect starting / or \) and remove the "report an issue".

Just to explain starting with / is considered an absolute path on unix system, therefore I feel like we shouldn't "just" make that a relative path on windows.

I added the message while rewriting some parts of the globbing implementation where I wasn't sure how and when a particular code path can be reached