Hello @r-devel, From what I read in the following thread:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2023q4/010197.html The major reason to limit paths lengths in R packages is to help support MS Windows 260-chars paths lengths limit (pre-W10). However, the official documentation at this address: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Package-structure-1 States: > /packages are normally distributed as tarballs, and these have a limit on path lengths: for maximal portability 100 bytes. / This is the wrong explanation. Tar has been supporting 256-chars paths since POSIX.1-1988 and unlimited paths since POSIX.1-2001. The limitation should be deferred to MS Windows instead of tar. Considering that the manuals are « /edited by the R Development Core Team /» <https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html>, I suppose that this is the right list to point out this inconsistency? How can I help in fixing this? Should I open a bug at R Bugzilla? Note: I am not discussing whether the limit itself should be reconsidered. That discussion seems yet covered by the aforementioned thread (but it's non-official), and by bug #18637 <https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18637> (but it's stale). In any case, I think there is no blocker to clarifying the situation in the documentation. Best regards, -- Iago-lito [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
