A while ago I read a blog post of one of the Windows developers/architects while explains a way to support paths of more than 260 characters. If I recall correctly if we using a special character as prefix.
I'll need to look it up again. Either we encourage users to use that prefix or we implicitly add it in NAnt (on Windows only). Gert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Mayert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] NAnt copy command failingwithSystem.IO.PathTooLongException Instead of using the <copy> tag you may just try using exec tag and doing an xcopy. BOb ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Mayert Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:52 AM To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [NAnt-users] NAnt copy command failing withSystem.IO.PathTooLongException During my NAnt build I have our product installs generated. Once the build is complete I use the copy task to copy the output install folders to out network testing folder. One of the installs is in a CD Image format and it is built in uncompressed mode, meaning that the full directory structure is exposed. So when this copy takes place it will fail with the System.IO.PathTooLongException - path larger than 260 characters. I before I change my install project to generate a compressed build of the CD Image I was just wondering if there is any thing that I could change so that it may be possible to copy a folder structure that was larger than 260 characters. Thanks, SMART Technologies Inc. Tim Mayert Build and Installation Engineer Software Development Tel. 403.228.8552 Fax 403.245.0366 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.smarttech.com <http://www.smarttech.com/> Bringing people and ideas together. (tm) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > NAnt-users mailing list > NAnt-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ NAnt-users mailing list NAnt-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
