Why are absolute paths not supported?

[localhosted]

Why are absolute paths not supported? I've read the comment, but why can't you just pull in the files from a directory? I have frontend code that's in a different project/vcs and I'd like to just pull the built files when running my backend code.

go.rice/box.go

Line 33 in 9fdfd46

if filepath.IsAbs(name) {

[GeertJohan]

I'm nut sure if there was anything holding this back, or just a philosophical decision. A proof-of-concept / PR is welcome :)

[GeertJohan]

Although I'm wondering if this follows the right philosophy for development. The idea is that in a live development environment, rice can find the assets by import path.
So perhaps we should first create a proper design/rationale on as why to do this? Are the assets not part of the development cycle? Will they be on the same absolute path for every developer on the project?

[InterwebCounty]

I wanted to use it in a desktop app and needed an absolute path to os.UserHomeDir() + "/Library/Application Support/".