[chelsealong]

Description

Fixes #5204. Preserve Windows drive paths verbatim when a POSIX host adds a bundle catalog, preventing the host’s Path.resolve() from rewriting them into project-relative paths. Native paths retain their existing behavior.

Testing

• Regression test: 2 failures before the fix; 2 passes after.
• Bundle suite: 1,272 passed.
• Sample CLI project: add, repeat add, and remove passed; the stored URL matched the input.
• Ruff, specify --help, and git diff --check passed.

AI Disclosure

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[yxshee]

I checked this against main (7370e59). On main, add_source(project, r"C:\catalog.json", ...) on Linux stores /<project>/C:\catalog.json with id c--catalog, as #5204 describes. With the change, the URL is stored verbatim and the id becomes catalog, which is the id the same input gets on Windows, so a config is now consistent across hosts.

Two things I noticed, neither blocking:

• On a POSIX host the preserved C:\catalog.json entry still can't be read. adapters.py opens it as Path(url) relative to the working directory and raises Catalog file not found: C:\catalog.json. That's a clear error, so it's fine. If you'd rather catch it at bundle catalog add time, the issue's other option (reject a foreign drive path on POSIX) would do that.
• C:\catalog.json and C:/catalog.json are the same file on Windows, where both canonicalize to C:\catalog.json and the second add returns unchanged. On POSIX they're now stored verbatim, so the second add fails with "already exists" because the id catalog collides. remove_source(project, "C:/catalog.json") also won't remove an entry stored as C:\catalog.json on POSIX. Normalizing with str(PureWindowsPath(url)) instead of returning url unchanged would make both spellings behave the same way on every host.

Posted on behalf of @yxshee. AI disclosure: Claude Code (model: Claude Opus 5.5, autonomous) reproduced the issue on main, checked the change's behavior by applying the same two-line logic to main, and drafted this review. I did not run the PR branch itself.

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🟢 Approval recommended

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What changed in this PR

Fixes #5204 by preserving Windows drive paths verbatim when bundle catalog configuration is updated on POSIX hosts, while retaining native-path canonicalization.

Changes:

• Bypass host-native resolution for foreign Windows drive paths.
• Add regression coverage for both slash styles, verifying persistence, repeated-add idempotency, and removal.

The PR reports two regression failures before the fix and two passes afterward; these results were not independently rerun.

File	Description
tests/​specify_cli/​bundles/​test_catalog_config.py	Adds POSIX regression tests for Windows drive-path preservation and catalog lifecycle operations.
src/​specify_cli/​bundles/​catalog_config.py	Preserves foreign Windows drive paths and documents the behavior.

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[mnriem]

Thank you!