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Bug 58356

Summary: Allow relative classpaths outside freeform projects
Product: projects Reporter: ischneid <ischneid>
Component: Ant FreeformAssignee: Milan Kubec <mkubec>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: blocker CC: praveensavur
Priority: P2    
Version: 4.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 89629    

Description ischneid 2005-04-26 22:01:24 UTC 
While setting up freeform projects in 4.1rc1 and adding new classpaths to the
project via "Properties|Java Sources Classpath" there is no way to specify a
relative class path. In addition, if the project.xml is manually edited to use a
relative path which is _outside_ the project, those paths are converted to
absolute paths upon modification of path structure. While not critical to
compiliation, it breaks code completion, etc..
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2005-04-27 17:07:34 UTC 
Paths will be made relative automatically if you register a VCS working
directory in Versioning Manager. However there should still be a UI to override
this guess. Cf. issue #49637 for j2seproject.
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2007-04-11 22:01:37 UTC 
Probably would not happen the same way in 5.0. There are other issues filed for
the more general management of external paths.