my library name is longer than it should be but the "extra" stuff only counts 37 characters (beta45_with_live_electronics_tutorial)
and next release should also include the apple silicon extension I was thinking of a separate batch for double precision cheers Em sáb., 9 de abr. de 2022 às 18:50, Roman Haefeli <[email protected]> escreveu: > Hey all > > While trying to install the most recent version of ELSE, Deken simply > reported: "Download failed". I then tried to download with wget which > succeeded, but the resulting file was named (125 characters): > > > else[v1.0-0_beta45_with_live_electronics_tutorial](Darwin-amd64-32)(Darwin-i386-32)(Linux-amd64-32)(Linux-arm64-32)(Linux-ar > > The original filename is much longer (186 chars): > > > else[v1.0-0_beta45_with_live_electronics_tutorial](Darwin-amd64-32)(Darwin-i386-32)(Linux-amd64-32)(Linux-arm64-32)(Linux-armv6-32)(Linux-i386-32)(Windows-amd64-32)(Windows-i386-32).dek > > > While many filesystems use a limit of 255 chars for names, mine is bit > more limited. I encrypted my home folder with ecryptfs which is a > userspace filesystem on top of ext4. Because encrypting the filename > requires extra space, the limit of ecryptfs for filenames is lower than > the one of the underlying filesystem (which is ext4 in my case). > > I think having a lower limit than the common 255 characters is silly. I > don't think that Deken packages should assume a smaller filename limit > than 255. However, we see that the above example is not that far from > that (support for a few additional archs or double-precision could > reach it). Also, I wanted to share my experience. Maybe it has an > impact on the recent external double-precision file extension > discussion. > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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