Modules: support relative path

[wildum]

Background

The import.file block imports custom components from a file or a directory and exposes them to the importer. Users can specify the path to watch via the argument filename.

Problem

The path is relative to the current working directory. This works fine when importing a module from the root config but it’s not ideal when the module itself has import.file blocks. Resolving the path relative to the module would be better in this case.

Request

The following use-cases should be supported:

• import.file -> import.file
• import.git -> import.file
• import.string -> import.file

And if possible import.http -> import.file, but this one might be more tricky because it would only be possible if the nested import.file blocks would be turned into import.http blocks.

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[thampiotr]

Should this become a proposal as it's a user-facing API?

[wildum]

There was already an accepted proposal for it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16vRoiIxQVVlqqEGngm27Kcun6hF_BTpY2tPOSt05JWU/edit#heading=h.y9td4d74r21c