Type Providers in scripts don't work with SOURCE_DIRECTORY

[isaacabraham]

In a script, if you use Paket to generate load scripts and then try to reference a literal path for a type provider, using SOURCE_DIRECTORY breaks intellisense.

#load ".paket/load/netcoreapp3.1/main.group.fsx"

open FSharp.Data
[<Literal>]
let DealSample = __SOURCE_DIRECTORY__ + "/sample.json"

type Deals = JsonProvider<DealSample> // Deals = Object

If you remove the __SOURCE_DIRECTORY__ bit and just use sample.json, it all works with intellisense. However, at runtime it fails because FSI thinks that the current path is .paket/load/netcoreapp3.1.

Using __SOURCE_DIRECTORY__ used to work, so this feels like a breaking change.

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[Krzysztof-Cieslak]

@baronfel any ideas? Does this sound like something with resolving correct FSharpProjectOptions for script files, or something like that?

[bigjonroberts]

Is this caused by dotnet/fsharp#11610 ?