From f1357484e8f47ed4b687d6542b99750d00aa9ffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fons van der Plas <fonsvdplas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:47:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Warning about relative depot path, fix #2586

---
 src/Pluto.jl | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Pluto.jl b/src/Pluto.jl
index 5054456c3a..bc6ea932f0 100644
--- a/src/Pluto.jl
+++ b/src/Pluto.jl
@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ function __init__()
             # create empty file to indicate that we've shown the banner
             write(fn, "");
         end
+
+        bad_depots = filter(d -> !isabspath(expanduser(d)), DEPOT_PATH)
+        if !isempty(bad_depots)
+            @error """Pluto: The provided depot path is not an absolute path. Pluto will not be able to run correctly.
+            
+            Did you recently change the DEPOT path setting? Change your setting to use an absolute path.
+            
+            Do you not know what this means? Please get in touch! https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues
+            """ bad_depots DEPOT_PATH
+        end
     end
 end