Using Maven Appassembler plugin, how to generate scripts in BaseDir?

Question

I have a Maven project that uses Appassembler plugin to assemble the deployment. I want the generated SH and BAT scripts to be in the base directory and not in a specific folder (default being /bin).

I have tried setting binFolder to ${basedir} and ".",but both result in classpath errors when running the generated scripts.

My current plugin configuration is as follows:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.10</version>
                <configuration>
                    <programs>
                        <program>
                                                    <mainClass>myMainClass</mainClass>
                        </program>
                    </programs>
                    <configurationSourceDirectory>src/main/resources/conf</configurationSourceDirectory>
                    <copyConfigurationDirectory>true</copyConfigurationDirectory>
                    <repositoryLayout>flat</repositoryLayout>
                    <repositoryName>lib</repositoryName>
                    <binFolder>bin</binFolder>
                    <showConsoleWindow>true</showConsoleWindow>
                    <logsDirectory>log</logsDirectory>
                    <tempDirectory>temp</tempDirectory>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

This configuration results in the following directory structure:

-appassembler -bin <--- scripts generated here -etc -lib -log

What I want is:

-appassembler <--- scripts generated here -bin -etc -lib -log