Thanks torsten. I think that christophe will react promptly.
I know that guille and pablo found a bug in the VM code related to files (and 
it crashes iceberg build). 

Stef

> On 1 Apr 2019, at 21:25, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If one downloads images with Launcher on Windows and accepts default names 
> like "Pharo 7.0 - 32bit (stable)" this will end up in path names like
> 
>   "C:/Users/Admin/Documents/Pharo/images/Pharo 7.0 - 32bit (stable)"
> 
> The dot and space combination in such files can later make trouble when 
> downloading projects (like Seaside) using Iceberg and libgit and leading
> later to the  "IceGenericError: failed to stat file  ... The filename or 
> extension is too long" problem.
> 
> I guess the dot in combination with spaces in the name is sometimes seen as 
> the path element on current directory.
> 
> If one gives an own name like "LatestPharo7" in Launcher (having 
> C:/Users/Admin/Documents/Pharo/images/LatestPharo7 then) Seaside loads
> even from the FileTree format.
> 
> 
> As many people prefer to use Launcher now these days they might easily hit 
> this problem.
> 
> I opened an issue already for Launcher so this discussion here on ML is 
> watched:
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/327
> 
> Feedback and tests from Windows users are welcomed.
> 



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