Feature #4104
allow mapping of absolute paths to project relative paths
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#1 Updated by Greg Shah about 5 years ago
Although it is a poor development choice, some customer projects have hard coded absolute paths in their application. For conversion, this primarily affects include files.
The runtime already has a mechanism to map absolute paths to relative paths, though it is currently designed to only support cases where Windows paths must be mapped to Linux or vice versa. That is probably not enough, even for runtime, since there may be cases where absolute paths need to be mapped to a relative path on the same OS. See #3565 for details.
This current task is meant to implement a conversion facility that handles this mapping. We should ensure that it does not care about the OS, but handles any kind of absolute to relative mapping.