[R-pkg-devel] Wrong mailing list: Could the 100 byte path length limit be lifted?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 13 December 2023 at 16:02, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
| 
| On 12/13/23 15:59, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 13 December 2023 at 15:32, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
| > | Please don't forget about what has been correctly mentioned on this
| > | thread already: there is essentially a 260 character limit on Windows
| > | (see
| > | https://blog.r-project.org/2023/03/07/path-length-limit-on-windows/index.html
| > | for more). Even if the relative path length limit for a CRAN package was
| > | no longer regarded important for tar compatibility, it would still make
| > | sense for compatibility with Windows. It may still be a good service to
| > | your users if you keep renaming the files to fit into that limit.
| >
| > So can lift the limit from 100 char to 260 char ?
| 
| The 260 char limit is for the full path. A package would be extracted in 
| some directory, possibly also with a rather long name.

Call a cutoff number. 

Any move from '100' to '100 + N' for any nonzero N is a win. Pick one, and
then commit the change.  N = 50 would be a great start as arbitrary as it is.

Dirk

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