On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Flavius Olaru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Coming from an XWiki developer using Windows 7 as developing platform, > fixing the path issue now won't fix the older existing tags. When you > checkout an older tag with windows path issue it will be the same as it is. > > I found myself using cygwin on windows or the github application. > > The problem with path too long in git client application comes from msysgit > which uses an deprecated windows api, (Win32).
github application really works ? it's supposed to use msysgit too and last time I tried it I would not clone platform (but it was a long time ago). > > Thank you, > Flavius > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Thomas Mortagne > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Reviving http://markmail.org/message/hlnqke3igkbec332 for as an official >> vote. >> >> We have waited way too long and I think we really need to find a >> solution even if none of the committers use Windows since a long time. >> Every time a Windows dev even think of contributing he is very quickly >> discouraged... >> >> As a reminder the issue is that working on XWiki source code is a pain >> for MS Windows developers because of the (impossible to understand I >> agree) limitation on path size. >> >> So the idea is to find a new logical rule to drastically shorten our >> paths and Sergiu proposed the following: remove duplicated information >> from our paths to maven modules. >> >> Here is an example: >> >> >> xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-rendering/xwiki-platform-rendering-transformations/xwiki-platform-rendering-transformation-macro >> (131 chars) >> >> would become >> >> core/rendering/transformations/macro (36 chars) >> >> So WDYT ? >> >> Here is my +1 >> >> I also find it nicer when navigating using cd and tab in a unix shell >> anyway. >> >> Planning to do it in 5.1 if everyone agree. >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > > -- > Flavius Olaru > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
