On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 12:38:41 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 10:57:56 UTC, Josphe Brigmo
wrote:
Phobos *NEEDS* to be modified to work with these newer OS's.
You need to look at the source code before posting. The code
for remove is literally
DeleteFileW(name);
it is a one-line wrapper, and obviously uses the unicode
version.
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/file.d#L1047
It doesn't matter, the fact is that something in phobos is broke.
Do you really expect me to do all the work? The fact that using
executeShell or "\\?\" solves 90% of the problems(maybe all of
them) proves that phobos is not up to par.
It's simple as that.
just because it uses unicode does not mean squat if it doesn't
work. The docs from microsoft said that the unicode functions are
suppose to not have the limitation, but that doesn't mean that
using them is the only fix.
The fact is, I write a directory parser and it failed, then I
spend the next day trying to get something relatively easy to be
fixed that should already have been fixed.
I'm also not the only one with the problem.
Maybe you should spend some time on windows and using std.file
with long paths. I bet you have actually never done it so you are
obviously to the problems.
There may be "simple" fixes, but the fact is that something is
wrong or else my code would work(you can blame me all you want
but the facts are the facts and the code only breaks on long file
names).
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file#maximum-path-length-limitation
It is a bit more complicated than just saying that phobos is
doing it's job. Of course, it could be some windows issue but
given that
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967
The point is that these things should be thoroughly tested before
blaming the end user. Whatever is going on, it should. File IO is
very basic and common and for code to break silently or in ways
that does not make sense is bad, regardless of if I existed in
this universe or not.
How hard is it for phobos to detect long files and absolute files
and such and prepend if necessary?
