@olamy could this be a first step?

Also look atapache/maven-shared-utils#54. IMHO we should only implement in one library....

Also look atapache/maven-shared-utils#54. IMHO we should only implement in one library....

The most notable thing I see is that it is two years old now and no progress at all...

I'm a bit skeptical about breaking the API and replacing the return type of thegetBasedir().
A less problematic approach would be to provide a different method which would return aPath instead, or a new interface if we want to avoid having bothFile andPath in the same interface (the implementation could implement both interface, provided they use different names for the conflicting methods).