Web: Unable to open a workspace with absolute paths on windows

[bpasero]

Folders having absolute windows paths inside a workspace configuration file are not supported in web.

Reply from @aeschli

Absolute path in workspace files can be formatted as be os paths (c:\ddd). To be able to correctly resolve that for remote workspaces, we need to pass the platform of the workspace file to toWorkspace

Agree that this needs to be fixed, but IMO using absolute paths in the workspace file is not recommended and should be avoided. From what I know, we always create relative paths if possible.

[aeschli]

@bpasero What do you suggest we do?
How was that workspace file created? IMO that's the problematic point.

[bpasero]

@aeschli should have made clear, I only moved the issue. @lramos15 reported it. Maybe @sbatten and @sandy081 also have additional context.

However, given that someone may just check in a workspace file to a repository with absolute paths, I guess we could always end up in that situation.

[sbatten]

Copied from previous issue:

@bpasero @aeschli I created my workspace file by saving workspace as and it used absolute paths.

To reproduce that on Windows, I open a folder in VS Code at C:\Users\sbatten\Source\folder then save the workspace as C:\Users\sbatten\Desktop\workspace.code-workspace

[aeschli]

@sbatten Can you verify? You know the setup.