Re: Handling paths of length > 260 in Tcl on Windows
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Re: Handling paths of length > 260 in Tcl on Windows

From: Chris R <offby1@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 09:59:07 CEST



Thank you, Uwe.  From those conversations, I gather the issue is not


yet resolved.



It might be worth adding that interacting with large, complex Java


projects using Tcl as a tool platform requires this kind of support, as


well, as Java uses the extended filename APIs under the Win32 hood, and


some IBM WebSphere tools, as well as Webservice stub generators are all


capable of generating filenames with this problem on any organized


project structure.  The varying part of some of those filenames and


paths (the parts that are tool-generated) can, and do, hi 240


characters, forcing us to keep our projects in D:\ if we want them to


be buildable, using Tcl-based tools.   This is not a good thing, for


obvious reasons.



Anyway...



I'd like to see this support added in to the core, assuming it's


possible to just pass the names to the underlying routines.


Received on Sun Apr 30 06:36:29 2006