Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows
Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi, a short question's regarding path's: Is it generally a good idea to have space's and the version number (for example OOo-dev 3.0, Basis 3.0,...) inside the oo install path's ? spaces: no idea if that is good or bad; when coming up with Basis 3.0 I just followed prior art (OpenOffice.org 2.4) version number: see What shall be the paths where the tree layers are installed, and is it necessary to encode any version numbers in those paths? in http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Three-Layer_OOo -Stephan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows
Hi, spaces: no idea if that is good or bad; when coming up with Basis 3.0 I just followed prior art (OpenOffice.org 2.4) that's true, but till oo 2.4 one had a chance to install to a path without spaces and version numbering, like c:\programs\openoffice. that's not possible anymore ... Oliver -- GnuPG key 0xCFD04A45: 8822 057F 4956 46D3 352C 1A06 4E2C AB40 CFD0 4A45 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows
Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi, spaces: no idea if that is good or bad; when coming up with Basis 3.0 I just followed prior art (OpenOffice.org 2.4) that's true, but till oo 2.4 one had a chance to install to a path without spaces and version numbering, like c:\programs\openoffice. that's not possible anymore ... Right. I'm rather indifferent about the exact naming details (apart from the technically-imposed version numbers encoded in file names, of course), maybe other people want to give input. -Stephan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows
Stephan Bergmann wrote: Applications on Windows are notorious for having problems with long file system paths. Some expert on Windows can probably give more insight into the topic in general. For OOo, the situation has always been that it can start to fail in mysterious ways if the installation path or the user installation path is too long (whatever too long is exactly). Since DEV300m4, the situation has become slightly worse, in that too long has apparently become a little shorter: - For one, since OOo is now in three layers where the upper layers need to create paths to the lower ones, on Windows there is now a function (resolveLink, desktop/win32/source/extendloaderenvironment.cxx:1.4, l. 115 ff) to create a new path from an absolute path and a text file containing a relative path. The text file (basis-link resp. ure-link) typically contains a relative path starting with one or more .. segments, but resolveLink does not bother to remove these from the resulting new path. That is, instead of the path C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org\Basis 3.0\program you get the path C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\..\OpenOffice.org\Basis 3.0\program which is somewhat longer. I will see to improve resolveLink in one of the next milestone builds. see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88166 -Stephan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows
Hi, a short question's regarding path's: Is it generally a good idea to have space's and the version number (for example OOo-dev 3.0, Basis 3.0,...) inside the oo install path's ? This can be a trouble source too, if one needs to do installation using simple batch scripts ... Oliver GnuPG key 0xCFD04A45: 8822 057F 4956 46D3 352C 1A06 4E2C AB40 CFD0 4A45 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[dev] Long paths on Windows
Applications on Windows are notorious for having problems with long file system paths. Some expert on Windows can probably give more insight into the topic in general. For OOo, the situation has always been that it can start to fail in mysterious ways if the installation path or the user installation path is too long (whatever too long is exactly). Since DEV300m4, the situation has become slightly worse, in that too long has apparently become a little shorter: - For one, since OOo is now in three layers where the upper layers need to create paths to the lower ones, on Windows there is now a function (resolveLink, desktop/win32/source/extendloaderenvironment.cxx:1.4, l. 115 ff) to create a new path from an absolute path and a text file containing a relative path. The text file (basis-link resp. ure-link) typically contains a relative path starting with one or more .. segments, but resolveLink does not bother to remove these from the resulting new path. That is, instead of the path C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org\Basis 3.0\program you get the path C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\..\OpenOffice.org\Basis 3.0\program which is somewhat longer. I will see to improve resolveLink in one of the next milestone builds. - For another, at least so called administrative installations (msiexec /a) let you chose an installation path (other than C:\Program Files), and in older versions the chosen path replaced part of the prefix of an OOo's installation path. That is, if you chose D:\Foo as installation path, for example the OOo 2.4 soffice.exe ended up at D:\Foo\program\soffice.exe (the OpenOffice.org 2.4 segment of the corresponding default C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.4\program\soffice.exe was dropped). However, since we now install three adjacent trees instead of just one, we can no longer drop the OpenOffice.org 3.0 segment, so if you now chose D:\Foo as installation path, soffice.exe ends up at the path D:\Foo\OpenOffice.org 3.0\program\soffice.exe which is somewhat longer. In short: If your OOo installation on Windows behaves strange, maybe you should install it into a shorter path. :( -Stephan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows
Hi Stephan, Stephan Bergmann wrote (9-4-2008 11:47) [...] In short: If your OOo installation on Windows behaves strange, maybe you should install it into a shorter path. :( My OOo installation will suffer less than my OpenOffice.org installation. (hint). Regards, Cor -- The Year of 3 -2008- Het jaar van 3 Cor Nouws Arnhem - Netherlands - nl.OpenOffice.org - marketing contact - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
