Relative Path for java.home

[hannah23280]

Hi, From the description of java.home, it stated "absolute path....". Is there any possibility to support relative path? A good use case is that when we configure as relative path, we can check in our setting file to source control to share with rest of other co-developer, who would have the jdk in the same relative path (but not necessarily same absolute path)

[hannah23280]

Alternatively, we can find a way to allow the use of variable such as ${workspaceFolder}/java1.8.0_77 in java.home.

[hannah23280]

Hi, In case anyone might not be aware, Quoted from a post in vscode forum

"In VS Code 1.42 we will introduce a new hook resolveDebugConfigurationWithSubstitutedVariables in the extension API that receives the debug configuration with all variables resolved."

Not sure if this hook will help to support variable expansion

[hannah23280]

Any intention/plan to cater relative path for java.home or involve the use of variable expansion method?

[rrmcguinness]

Has this issue ever been considered? It would help with other build tools that manage the toolchain, like Bazel.