using ~ as a relative path now works

[mwieder]

This patch uses specialFolderpath("home") as a replacement for "" when a path relative to the user's home directory is specified. Without this patch the base path is prepended to "" and the rest of the relative path, which creates the wrong directory structure.

[bwmilby]

Something does not seem right here. Your code should never get executed. A path beginning with ~ or / should get interpreted as being absolute. Here's the function that is used:

private function _pathIsRelative pPath
   if pPath begins with "/" then return false
   if pPath begins with "~" then return false
   if char 2 of pPath is ":" then return false
   return true
end _pathIsRelative

[mwieder]

Hmmm... I'll take a look at this again - it's been a few months now since this patch. Here's what I'm dealing with:
I have a plugin that I'm working on in my user plugins folder
I want the scripts repo elsewhere (with a symbolic link in the repo to the actual plugin)
From memory this patch allowed me to keep things separate rather than everything in a single folder, but I could well just be misremembering. Glancing at the code, I'd guess you're correct about the patch.
Stay tuned.