btw, do you have a patch for this issue?

well, what i was saying is even we fix this path separator issue (btw, thanks for reporting this), you will hit another issue when generating documents
and, as i said, this issue does not stop you start working issues (not hibernate release issue, but hibernate functional issue) by adding this property -DdisableDistribution=true

the only problem to patch this fix is we don't have a windows environment...

How you are saying? Because unix-style format is supported.Just I tried to fix so that I can start working issues.

Will it be problem if patch the fix?

if then, i would suggest you just run "mvn clean install -DdisableDistribution=true", this will not active "hibernate-documentation" nor "hibernate-distribution" modules, and these two do not affect development (actually they're only useful when release hibernate)
and even we fix this issue, you will run into another environment issue

since, hibernate-documentation use jdocbook plugin to generate documents from docbook and also doing translation, but unforutunally, this translation task depends on some linux tool which are not available on windows

I have taken hibernate 3.6 for development using windows environment, when i run clean build, it will fail while execution of script in hibernate distribution as \ in windows. I have fixed the problem and need to release this in patch. So i created this issue. Need to know(steps) how to release as patch?