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 ?

Dirk

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