>>>>> McGrath, Justin M
>>>>> on Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:03:28 +0000 writes:
> We include other software in our source code. It has some long paths so a
few of the files end up with paths longer than 100 bytes, and we need to
manually rename them whenever we pull in updates.
> The 100 byte path limit is from tar v7, and since
> POSIX1.1988, there has not been a path length limit. That
> standard is 35 years old now, so given that there is
> probably no one using an old version of tar that also
> wants to use the latest version of R, could the 100 byte
> limit be lifted? Incidentally, I am a big proponent of
> wide, long-term support, but it's hard to see that this
> change would negatively impact anyone.
> Best wishes,
> Justin
Wrong mailing list:
This is a topic for R-devel, not at all R-package-devel,
but be more accurate in what you are talking about, only between
the line I could read that it is about some variants of using
'tar'.
Best regards,
Martin
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Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich and R Core team
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