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 -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
