> The problem isn't IDE-related at all, it's about the filesystem. Windows > doesn't allow creating files with a path longer than 255 characters, so > it will fail at attempting to fetch the sources from GitHub. > > And that's not actually true, the filesystem itself does allow long path > names, it's the Windows API that is broken. There are alternative APIs > that allow longer path names (32k chars), but it seems that very few > developers use those instead of the default ones (not even the official > Windows applications seem to use those), so most applications are broken. > > This is why using cygwin works, because it correctly uses the modern > APIs. And maybe in time other tools will work as well, but we can't say > that "your tool is broken, use something else" when the tool works for > 99.9% of all the other software packages. > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#maxpath
Ok, I see the problem. I though the problem was only when compiling the whole project, not only while a user try to checkout. -- Frédéric Bouquet Twitter/Github : bouquetf http://www.espacedefouille.org/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
