Unfortunately, you might have to use tools like a CI/CD system or a runtime environment (AWS Lambdas, for example), where none of this flows down correctly. Ed

Unfortunately, you might have to use tools like a CI/CD system or a runtime environment (AWS Lambdas, for example), where none of this flows down correctly. Edit: As a concrete example, say you need a C based python package to work locally, but also build within Gitlab and be deployable to an AWS Lambda. There's a gap there where Python really wants absolute paths that don't change.