Targeted dir must be a parent to the reference path.

[ioleo]

I'm getting Targeted dir must be a parent to the reference path. error on line:

Filesystem/RelativePathComputer.php#L33

My enviroment:
Windows 10
bower, php, node, ruby installed globally

The problem is I have vendors on RAMDISK (for performance) and /vendor dir is only a symlink to actual directory on RAMDISK.

When I renamed symlink to vendor2 and copy-pasted vendors from ramdisk - the issue was fixed.

Is there any way we could avoid raising this exception in this case?

[sescandell]

@loostro I think the easiet way to handle all this specific cases is to add an option "target" so we don't automatically compute the target dir, but let the user define the one he wants.

What do you think?

[bobvandevijver]

I think it is better to use the Symfony Filesystem component for this as the errors lies in the fact that string comparison is used here. When using the Filesystem, we should be able to compute the correct answer, not depending on symlinks.

Thoughts?

[ioleo]

I'll try replaceing it locally with symfony2 filesystem component and see if it works. Will do a PR if it does.

[sescandell]

@bobvandevijver I think you are talking about makePathRelative method?

Let's try it...

[bobvandevijver]

Maybe in combination with the Finder component, to find if the given directory can be found inside the parent directory. Not use about the performance impact though, but I guess this is only needed during cache warmup?

[sescandell]

@bobvandevijver actually only in a command to install bower packages... performance doesn't matter here.

[sescandell]

Is anyone working on that?