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

[McGrath, Justin M]

I'm not even asking for that. I'm asking for the decades old ustar comparability, which is 255 characters, at most. In practice it is slightly less than that. ustar is older than R itself. There is no one using R who doesn't have ustar compatible tar.

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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 8:59 AM
To: Tomas Kalibera
Cc: McGrath, Justin M; Ben Bolker; Martin Maechler; r-package-devel using r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel]  Wrong mailing list: Could the 100 byte path length limit be lifted?


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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://blog.r-project.org/2023/03/07/path-length-limit-on-windows/index.html__;!!DZ3fjg!-YZg5PVpulgNXCVfVklP442UG_0ofB8omMLlMq5dNadF9RP_6uofnrT6IbZpG1fpvjmAtLyAm1Y9rbc$
| 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 ?

Dirk

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