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
It's almost certainly this bug: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-vsce/issues/381 as I just encountered it while trying to package ansible-vscode, which uses symlinks
As mentioned in that issue, I found that running vsce package --yarn (even without yarn-specific files in the working copy) caused it to package as expected.
This was with node v17.6.0 darwin/amd64 and vsce 1.96.1. While testing this, I noticed my vsce was old, but I had the same experience on 2.6.7, which is the latest