[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1790?page=all ]
John Sisson updated GERONIMO-1790:
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Attachment: GERONIMO-1790.patch
Patch to shorten names of nested files in ears.
> Long Geronimo path and file names cause problems on Windows
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>
> Key: GERONIMO-1790
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1790
> Project: Geronimo
> Type: Bug
> Security: public(Regular issues)
> Components: general
> Versions: 1.1
> Environment: Windows of various flavors
> Reporter: Joe Bohn
> Assignee: Dain Sundstrom
> Fix For: 1.1
> Attachments: GERONIMO-1790.patch
>
> The long path and file names causes a problem for windows users because by
> default windows typically only allows paths of 256 bytes. JDK 1.4 itself has
> a problem with the long path and file names (aided by embedded classes).
> When using a root directory of greater than 12 characters we exceed the
> windows default limit which results in fileIO exceptions. It's a fragile
> situation since the addition of a new artifact could break us on windows at
> any time by resulting in a path greater than 256 chars even with the normal
> root directory of "geronimo". John Sisson has learned that this JDK
> problem is fixed in JDK 1.5_06. That should alleviate the build problem (if
> we get there before we had a hard break on JDK 1.4).
> However, even when we get the build problem behind us with JDK 1.5_06 there
> are still other utilities commonly used on Windows that will break with
> longer path names. For example, Windows Explorer, the CMD shell, WinZip,
> xcopy, etc... all seem to have problems with when we exceed 256 bytes for a
> name.
> Should we consider attempting to shorten our path names to avoid grief for
> our windows users? While it is in fact an arbitrary limit, I think that most
> people find particularly long path/file names distracting at the very least
> and not very helpful. Is it worth enforcing some limits for ease of use as
> well as to prevent problems on Windows?
> For additional info see:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geronimo-dev/200601.mbox/[EMAIL
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40geronimo.apache.org/msg19834.html
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