We have a distribution task, that combines a number of zip files into one together with the artifacts generated by our build. During the unpack of the original zip files we relocate a few directories. We now run into the issue that on unix everything works but on windows we are not seeing a 'denormalized' paths as we would expect (e.g. we see a path with back slashes in stead of slashes).

The expectation from a path with slashes on windows stems from: http://gradle.org/current/docs/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/FileTreeElement.html#getPath%28%29.

task dist(type: Zip, dependsOn: cleanDist) {
    description = "Build distribution ZIP"

    subprojects {
        dependsOn(it.jar)
    }

    def virgoFileTree = zipTree(configurations.server.getSingleFile())

    def virgoDocPath = 'docs/virgo-' + virgo_version
    virgoFileTree.matching({include "**/docs/**/*"}).each {
        newPath = it.path.substring(it.path.indexOf('/docs/') + 5, it.path.lastIndexOf('/'))
        from(it) { into (virgoDocPath + newPath) }
    }

    // more of the same.....
}

The 'include' in the matching part works, but the indexOf's fail, on windows, due to it.path using slashes on unix and backslashes on windows.