[DrJava] [ drjava-Bugs-1988976 ] Project files shouldn't be canonicalized

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Bugs item #1988976, was opened at 2008-06-09 10:15
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Category: Project Facility
Group: 2: Annoying
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Dan Smith (dlsmith)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Project files shouldn't be canonicalized

Initial Comment:
I lifted the "source" directory of a project of mine into a different folder (for backup purposes) and created a symbolic link.  Now all the files in the project are treated as "External Files", because their canonical paths are not subtrees of the (canonical) project root.  There's no reason not to treat the symbolic link to a directory just like a normal directory.

In general, anywhere we canonicalize files we probably ought to be just getting absolute paths -- unless there's a good reason to do otherwise.

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