Ömer Sinan Ağacan
> while making the case of contributing patches with submodule changes more > difficult
I don't understand this, can you give an example of what absolute paths make harder?
Looking at the wiki pages and scripts we need to make relative paths work for everyone, I think it's clear that absolute paths would be better because CI wouldn't need any scripts anymore and users would need no instructions to make cloning forks work.
The problem comes when a user needs to modify a submodule. In this case then need the submodule to pull from their clone until their patch is accepted upstream. There is no single submodule path scheme that works in both this case and the (likely more common case) of a causual contributor wanting to make a change to only the GHC repository. Cheers, - Ben