Support relative paths in depedencies

[qarlosalberto]

• npm: 8.1.0
• vsce: 2.5.3

I have a npm package (colibri) in a local folder and a VSCode extension (vscode-teroshdl) in other folder. colibri is a dependency of vscode-teroshdl:

    "dependencies": {
        "colibri": "file:../colibri"
    },

When I try to package the VSCode extension:

          cd colibri
          npm install
          cd ../vscode-terosHDL
          npm install
          vsce package

It fails with the error:

 ERROR  invalid relative path: extension/../colibri/node_modules/cli-progress/CHANGES.md

[VitGottwald]

Have you tried running npx @vscode/vsce ls to diagnose the issue?

It helped me to resolve a very similar issue. In my case it was caused by the presence of node_modules folder above the current folder. vsce tried to package it in and was failing with a message similar to yours. Adding ../**/* to .vscodeignore resolved the issue for me.

[ben5311]

Have you tried running npx @vscode/vsce ls to diagnose the issue?

It helped me to resolve a very similar issue. In my case it was caused by the presence of node_modules folder above the current folder. vsce tried to package it in and was failing with a message similar to yours. Adding ../**/* to .vscodeignore resolved the issue for me.

Thank you, had the same issue!